As technology reshapes work, exchanging experience, ideas, and insights across generations gives businesses a competitive edge.

Your next great business idea could come from someone who started working decades before you—or decades after.

As AI and technology change how work gets done, there’s opportunity in bringing different generations’ experience, curiosity, and judgment to the same table. Who knows what? What can we teach one another? And what becomes possible when we put that knowledge to work?

In this week’s WBC Business Pulse, powered by LinkedIn, Steve Bernas, president and CEO of the Chicago Better Business Bureau, explores how businesses can turn a multigenerational workforce into a competitive advantage.

November is National Career Development Month—a good reminder that learning, contributing and growing belong at every stage of a career.

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