Tag: Neal Howe
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Suicide Rate Highest in Middle Age (More Evidence of Generation Jones?)
MedPage: Suicide Rate Highest in Middle Age WASHINGTON — The suicide rate, once highest among those older than 80, now tops out among people in the 45 to 54 age group, according to a CDC report on violent deaths. In 2007, the latest year for which figures are available, the suicide among those ages 45…
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Rancor Out of Control: Welcome to the Fourth Turning?
Are we in the middle of a "Fourth Turning," as William Strauss and Neil Howe described? I know some of my readers roll their eyes at this stuff about generations, but a couple of years ago, I did an eleven-part series (Index) on Strauss and Howe's work, focusing primarily on their books Generations: The History…
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McCain vs Obama. A “Fourth Turning” Phenomenon?
Is an Obama versus McCain campaign evidence of a "Fourth Turning" as described by William Strauss and Neil Howe? I know some of my readers roll their eyes at this stuff about generations, but a couple of years ago, I did an eleven-part series (Index) on Strauss and Howe's work, focusing primarily on their books…
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Are the Millennials Different?
US News & World Report: Are the Millennials Different? by Michael Barone In their excellent 1991 book Generations, William Strauss and Neal Howe described the just-emerging Millennial generation (born 1982 and after). At a time when all Millennials were prepubescent, they wrote: As these kids pass through school, they will sail smoothly behind a debris-clearing…
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Does it Rhyme?
The world is descending into a global conflagration. Totalitarian leaders of nations that feel humiliated by the US and its allies are becoming more vitriolic and threatening. An economic powerhouse is emerging in the Pacific Rim. Americans are divided about how to respond. Some believe we need to aggressively get onto the world stage and…
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Greater than ‘the greatest’?
Greater than 'the greatest'? is an article printed a few days ago in the St. Petersburg Times. Their generational brackets don't exactly match William Strauss and Neil Howe's brackets I presented in my Generations series, but I think the overall content is very good. Just as a refresher, S & H use the following birth…
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The NSC’s Sesame Street Generation
A few months ago, I posted on William Strauss and Neil Howe's work on generations. As we look to the future, I wrote what Strauss and Howe believed about "Generation X" (born 1961-1981): In a time of crisis, innovative strategies and institutions must be created on the fly. It will require an unflinching realism that…