For 30 years, discussions about generational differences in the workplace have grown increasingly complex and frustrating. Beginning with Generation X, experts have identified three, then four, and now even five distinct generations operating side by side D each allegedly unique and requiring their own management approach. If you buy all that, the more generations that share a workplace, the tougher it is to collaborate productively. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. It isn't so complicated, and it doesn't have to be so difficult.