Work methods and functions are no longer permanent structures, they are fluid processes requiring workers to adapt. In New Zealand the number of workers aged 50 to 64 will expand within the next 10 years from 360,000 to 560,000 and we will have to face another area of the unknown B voluntary retirement. In order to survive after the radical shift from Government protected to private enterprise businesses have had to become vastly more efficient and smarter. People generally resist change because it is both difficult and painful and they don't know how to handle it. Management generally just want to get through change quickly.
Many businesses fail because they become too complicated too easily.
To get through the year 2000 gateway we must continually re-examine, modify and even discard parts of our past that will be no longer relevant. If we unnecessarily bind ourselves to the past we will go backwards into the future. I leave you with this thought. When the famous discoverer Christopher Columbus started out he did not know where he was going. When he got there he did not know where he was.