Full Description
If you are a leader at midlife trying to manage your career, your children, and aging parents, all while trying to move through an ever-complicated post-pandemic workplace, this book is for you. The Survival Guide for Gen X Leaders is full of inspirational and pragmatic advice that readers can implement tomorrow. Morrison interviews GenX leaders who have led their public and private organizations through challenging times with determination and efficacy. Morrison shares her own story of leading the first college in the country impacted by COVID-19 in February 2020. The GenX leaders interviewed in this survival guide, who haveled successful and multi-generational organizations in an empowering way, provide hope and tips to guide our organizations through this time of tremendous transition.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Acknowledging the Leadership Crisis that We are Now In
Chapter One: Our Boomer-Lined Path to Leadership
Chapter Two: Boomers Exit: The Fallout
Chapter Three: Ready or Not, We Are Now the Adults in the Room
Part Two: Lessons from GenX Leadership
Chapter Four: Setting the Stage for How Xer Leaders Pick Up the Post-Pandemic Pieces and Move Forward
Chapter Five: Profiles in GenX Leadership
Chapter Six: GenX Childhoods and How They Framed Who We are Today
Chapter Seven: GenX Leadership Coming of Age
Chapter Eight: Boomers: Our Teachers, Our Bosses, Our Coworkers, Mentors, and Friends: How they Framed our Working Lives and Opportunities
Chapter Nine: GenX's Profiles in Courage: Leading through Difficult Times and Lessons Learned
Part Three: The Path Forward: Six Steps to Sustain Ourselves and our Organizations While in the Middle of the Panini Press of Life
Chapter Ten: Step One: Creating the Organizations We Wanted at the Beginning of our Careers
Chapter Eleven: Step Two: Nurturing a Community of GenX Leaders
Chapter Twelve: Step Three: Staying Curious and Not Letting the Grind, Grind us Down
Chapter Thirteen: Step Four: Building the Bench while Calling the Shots
Chapter Fourteen: Step Five: Calling on Gen Z To Be the Future We Need
Chapter Fifteen: Step Six: Calling in our Boomer Retirees for Coaching, Mentoring, and Support
Chapter Sixteen: Embracing Our Legacy as Self-Sufficient, Pragmatic, Bridge Builders
Conclusion
Notes
About the Author
