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What problems will the next generation face?


This morning I interviewed a lady searching for a job opportunity.
"We worked so hard," she said with tears in her eyes.
I listened to her carefully while trying to empathize with her frustration.
"You wouldn’t believe how hard we worked to adapt to change," she said, "but all our efforts were worthless."
This lady that I was interviewing had worked for years at one of the local ToyscRUs. She witnessed how the once stable company had slowly gone bankrupt.
This was a painful story of our changing economic environment.
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What problems will the next generation face?
Dealing with unpredictable CHANGE will be the number one problem newer generations will face in the decades ahead.
Sadly, we don’t know how to change, and even worse, we don’t LIKE to change.

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