Why are so many smart, well-educated Generation Xers !D especially women !D so frustrated with their careers that they!|re ready to abandon the workplace? Did the Boomers!| feminist ideals set up the next generation for disappointment? What does the future hold for the Xers !D and the corporate world that needs their talents and leadership !D if the continue to opt out of the professional workforce?

!mThe Next Revolution!nexplores these issues with an engaging combination of generational perspectives. Drawing on the author!|s experiences, interviews with dozens of Gen Xers, and results from a 1,200-person survey, it offers a road map for change, identifying how Xers can transform their workplace to meet their needs and showing Boomer managers how to create X-friendly environments where the best and brightest of the next generation can contribute and prosper.

Charlotte Shelton, Ed. D., a Boomer mother, is an author, management professor, coach, and consultant. A founding member of WiseWork, a consulting group specializing in innovative organization development, she also teaches MBA students at Rockhurst University!|s Helzberg School of Management and is a visiting professor in Peking University!|s international MBA program. She is author of Quantum Leaps: 7 Skills for Workplace ReCreation, a frequent seminar and conference presenter, and contributor to numerous trade and academic journals.

Laura Shelton, who holds an M.A. degree in communications, is an award-winning reporter for a Fox television affiliate. In a typically peripatetic Gen X career, she has held four jobs in TV broadcasting in seven years, including reporting , anchoring, and producing news for NBC and CBS affiliates. Laura is also a contributing author to Crime and Local Television News and has been an invited panelist for several broadcasting conferences.