As Baby Boomers sell businesses, BDC says $300B in revenue is at stake - Yahoo! Finance Canada

Working with an older generation has shown me that I want to be more like them. On one of my days off, I was sitting at a coffee shop when my phone buzzed with a message from a coworker. "Tech issue here, any chance you can stop by? " they asked. I've never been much of a computer whiz, but at the independent bookstore where I've worked for two years, I'm the go-to for technology problems among the staff. Granted, that's because at 24, I'm the youngest employee by just about 30 years, with some of them easily passing as my grandmother. On this particular day, a column of the spreadsheet we use to track coming releases had shifted, throwing the whole operation into disarray. All I had to do was right-click a few times, copy a few cells, and then I was on my way, hailed as a hero. At first, I felt mostly confusion and a little bit of awe. How was this business functioning successfully with so little focus on technology? But now, working with my baby boomer colleagues has changed my perspective on generational differences. Our workplace differences were noticeable immediately

David Rubenstein is the billionaire cofounder of Carlyle. AI may be transforming the world of work, but the core ingredients for a successful career haven't changed, David Rubenstein says. "For a young person, the best thing to do is: Learn how to read and enjoy reading, learn how to speak effectively and persuasively, and learn how to write reasonably well," the billionaire investor told Business Insider in a recent, wide-ranging interview. The cofounder of private equity giant Carlyle also said to "find something that you really enjoy and make it your life's work. ""If you really enjoy something, it's not work, and you'll do much better at it," he continued. "Nobody ever won a Nobel Prize hating what they do. "Rubenstein, 77, acknowledged that more and more people are relying on AI chatbots to read and write, but he said the ability to discern between good and bad writing will remain important. "I just think the basic skills that have gotten people to be successful over the last several thousand years are probably not going to go away," he said.

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