Act your age. Avoid comparing a younger manager to your adult children or talking about what you were doing at their age. "The last thing the boss wants to hear is 'you remind me of my son,' " says Gravett. Conversely, you don't need to prove yourself hip to 30-somethings. "It is not appropriate to try to act younger than your age, dress younger, or try to disguise yourself as a younger individual in order to fit in," says Cam Marston, president of Generational Insight and author of Motivating the "What's in It for Me?" Workforce: Manage Across the Generational Divide and Increase Profits. "It comes across as silly."
做與年齡相符的事兒 避免將老板與你已成年的孩子作對比，或者夸夸其談在他這個年齡你正在做什么。格拉維特說：“老板最不想聽到的一句話就是‘你讓我想起了我的兒子?！?你不需要非搞得像30歲的樣子?？?馬斯頓說?！翱桃獗憩F得比實際年齡年輕是不好的，比如穿得年輕，或者為了年輕而掩飾自己?！瘪R斯頓著有《如何激勵‘我能得到什么’一族: 戰勝代溝 提高利潤》一書。