Next-Generation Operational Progress

With the world as it is now, with the baton being passed to the next generation firmly in your hands - well, I hope you cherish the thought of transforming while you can. Perish the thought that you might leave it to the incoming youngsters.

Sorry to be blunt; I'm hoping that any desire to lean on the mantlepiece for a couple of years while the young bloods sort it out is battling with an inkling that this is your watch, yours to own, and generational progress has never been more on the line than it is now.

The illusion that piles of money are going to make for better things has to die sometime. Whether it dies on Snowpiercer or on the train home is one for personal consideration.

I don't know what will come of my life's work, or if it will make a difference. All I know is that the world is changing fast and precedents have to be set... hard choices need to be made. Collaboration is key and time to regain a decent footing is fast running out.

You can vote for yourself in a one-horse race, or you can grant entire families an opportunity to flourish as this unprecedented era takes hold. You can safeguard the mental welfare of countless people by lifting your workplace above the inertia and despair that typifies traditional operations, and nobody can truthfully say it's not like that. They might argue that it's always been this way, which proves the point made by the Industrial Revolution - keep people afraid, and they'll do as they're told. In other words, "if they don't like it, they know where the door is."

The ball and chain of industrial history carried itself well past the point of logical encumbrance as human beings clutch to vestiges of humanitarianism over a hundred years old, desperately clawing their way to some perceived version of freedom against walls that continue to be built. Whichever side of the wall anyone believes they are on, the damage is going to be done and we don't know what that will look like, only that if it's in our power to limit damage, we should. And it is, so we could indeed do that very thing.

If you have come through life with a history of hardship anywhere at all, you are able to empathise with those you employ. That means you are fully equipped to turn tides of despondence into rays of hope that become real working environments; shining examples of community where people love to be. Is that not worth passing on to your children? Seeing the effects first-hand, they'll witness loyalty coming to life, so they in turn can stand for a version of leadership that makes sense. Everybody profits when transformation happens; it takes a certain kind of leader to see beyond blocks.

So here is Choice. Continue to support the undermining of engagement by doing nothing, or do something about cultural dysfunction today - give the next generation a runway for sustainable, innovative progress.

kathy@worldlinetraining.com is longing to hear from the ones who want to change.