Gen Z - what we'll Pass on

With the world as it is now, these years being the baton passed to the next generation - well, I hope you cherish the thought of making changes while you can. Perish the thought that you might not.

Or won't. Sorry to be blunt; I'm hoping that desire to lean on the mantlepiece for a couple of years while the young bloods sort it out is fighting against some inkling that this is your watch, yours to own, and shift handover 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.

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

The ball and chain of industrial history has indisputably carried itself 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 - do that very thing.

If you have come through life with a history of hardship anywhere at all, you are able to empathise with the people 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 and enjoy feeling loyalty. Is that not worth passing on to your children? Seeing the effects first-hand, they'll like what they see, so they in turn will stand for a version of humanitarian leadership that makes sense. Everybody profits when transformation happens; it takes a certain kind of leader to see through blocks.

So here is Choice. Continue to support the undermining of engagement by doing nothing, or do something about cultural dysfunction today - sow the seeds for a harvest that hurts no-one, and does what it says on the tin.