All that is needed is competence. While employing the best sounds good and gets us feeling warm inside, it is not essential to success on most levels of employment. The problems of the workplace are quite clear to those in it. The unbelievable success of Dilbert and the huge trend toward home-based business is indicative that all is not well in paradise. Tell me something new.
Technology is new.
This generation is new. As with all the problems of society, the solutions begin with us. There has been an explosion of young, educated entrepreneurs who have been able to live off the fringes of business by acting as consultants, temporary workers and contractors. However, the old structure of business remains at the center. This is selling our generation short.