Your Cheat Sheet For The Generational Divide

If I could be you
And you could be me
For just one hour
If we could find a way
To get inside
Each other's mind . . . 

-Joe South, "Walk a Mile in My Shoes"

If I were to guess, your legal department is managed by Boomers and Gen-Xers, but many of the lawyers in your group are millennials. The law firm world is no different, although I believe we are mostly boomer-led. Have you caught yourself telling your millennial direct reports, "When I was your age, we never (or always) . . . "? (P.S. Are you sounding more and more like your parents every day?) Or maybe you love working with millennials, but there are moments when you clearly have trouble seeing the world from their perspective.