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# Generation Shift
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200315generation-shift-html/
- Published: 2003-01-05T23:54:02.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:44:16.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Uncategorized, #DashHouseCom, #wp

> Within the space of one generation the word *boss* has completely changed its meaning. No longer a positive sign of accomplishment and authority, such a term now symbolizes distance from others, an unreasonable toughness, and other not-so-attractive connotations. Instead, among the Boomer and X generations, there is a desire to lead more as a symbolic peer…Something remarkable has happened during the space of a single generation to cause this profound shift. (Jay A. Conger, “How Generational Shifts Will Transform Organizational Life,” in [The Organization of the Future](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787903035/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))