es Kouzes, author of The Leadership Challenge recommends that if leaders do not challenge the process any system will unconsciously conspire to maintain the status quo and prevent change. This change may be the one thing that stagnates the company and will eventually cause the company to loose ground in this world. Embrace change and it will become a positive force for you in your travels to the top of your field. You've heard that every problem is an opportunity, and as tough times begin to close in, you can probably spot several ways to do something good for your company. So, let the tough times roll… and the new ideas will follow. Changes meet the Generation X's needs for a constant variation. We have a new type of work force developing in the horizon. The schools are experiencing trying to teach these future employees now. These youth are going to require a different workplace than what our parents had. They will not be able to sit and perform the same task over and over for eight hours a day because since birth, they have been constantly stimulated with all of the high technical devices available in the modern day world. These people have been stimulated with everything from dolls that read to you to Nintendo games that give you virtual reality. The teachers of today are now learning how to train these future employees and we are going to have to change our workplace to meet their needs. Students, however, conditioned by years of television, interactive video games and computers, are looking for something other than continual discourse from the teacher. They want to manipulate the joysticks, move the mice, and be "on-line" with their educational process. In other words, they want to be active participants, not passive observers, in their learning. The situation has prompted a "call to action" by the United States Secretary of Education, R. Riley: "We cannot sit still rooted to the chalk board and pencil at a time when a 12-ye...
