Sometimes I feel like Mad Men's character Don Draper as he approached the end of the 60s. The show Mad Men primarily focuses on the careers of people of the Sil

Sometimes I feel like Mad Men's character Don Draper as he approached the end of the 60s. The show Mad Men primarily focuses on the careers of people of the Silent Generation - a generation squashed between two more sizable and therefore influential generations. Through Mad Men, we witness Draper experiencing the radical changes in culture toward the end of the 1960s, and his culture shock is obvious. Luckily, Draper had built his career and wealth before being ultimately succumbing to the new generation who took over. It's important to note that there never was a silent generation U.S. president. Gen X is in a worse position - placed between baby boomers and millennials. The Baby Boomers usurped the culture of the Greatest Generation, not the Silent Generarion. Likewise, GenX culture has been passed over by Millennials. In this way, business skills that I focused on developing for 20 years have suddenly become unimportant and often considered old and archaic.