Business hierarchy is a triangle. By the late '80s we were discovering career blockaging, plateauing. By the '90s, senior executives were saying the old structure wasn't working anymore, beginning to re-engineer the corporation. That's why we've been delayering and flattening corporate structures. But where you flatten a triangle, promotions become limited.
Lateral moves become important.
Education is a life-long process because we now have more lateral moves in our lifetime. These are immigrant-receiving countries of the post war period. Quebec is the oldest province in Canada. That's why it's attracted to Europe. Peak numbers of births occurred in '72.