My apologies for the delay in responding.  We've been going through some transition here, but thankfully we're about done.

@Zhana and <a href="http://leadchangegroup.com/members/mike/" rel="nofollow">@Mike</a>, thanks for the comments.  It's nice to meet you.

@Sandy, It's good to hear from you.  One of my passions is creating a workplace that people don't want to leave.  I think that's the only answer to some of the generational challenges.  It can be very difficult to properly reward someone for giving their best hours of their best days to a company.  I think you're niece's (and my children's) generation is simply reacting to the truth of what has happened to our generation with our valueless 401k's and the frequency of layoffs.  Good points.

@Mark, It's nice to meet you. I agree; if we work together, we create synergy and find opportunities to help each other out.  Working apart creates opportunities only for failure.