Baby-Boomer Managers Struggle With Mentoring

At age 47, William Slater is nearly bald with a salt-and-pepper beard and a face gently lined with experience. A computer engineer in Chicago, he knows that he can change younger people's lives by serving as a mentor -- he has done so repeatedly. But he had bad experiences with three proteges, one of whom tried to take his job. "I have an ax to grind with Generation X," he says. "They're stabbing aging baby boomers in the back." explaines...
Jeffrey Zaslow