What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Based on a survey of 10,000 people.

by

Lynda Gratton

and

Andrew Scott

by

Lynda Gratton

and

Andrew Scott

November 18, 2016

Coaching and mentoring across age groups makes sense. There is surely much each can learn from the other. We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom.

Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School and the founder of HSM Advisory, the future-of-work research consultancy. Her most recent book is Redesigning Work: How to Transform Your Organization and Make Hybrid Work for Everyone (Penguin Business, 2022).
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Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He has served as an advisor on macroeconomics to a range of governments and central banks and was Non-Executive Director on the UK’s Financial Services Authority. He is the co-author, with Linda Scott, of The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity.

What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

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