How to manage Generation X

A blog in the Harvard Business Review Website Titled "Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties" gives some excellent recommendations for managing people in their 20's.

Advice includes a number of basic recommendations like "ask frequent questions", "give them personal attention", and "wear authority lightly". My question is, "Why haven't the other generations demanded the same type of treatment? It seems to me that these are basic ways of motivating and managing anyone -- not just 20-somethings. Why have we learned to accept poorly communicated management expectations, abuse of power, and demotivating managerial practices? I say, "Right On, Generation Y!"