1. Strategic T&L Management The Challenge of Change … . or …. “ Challenge Everything, Baldrick!” With apologies to Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

23. Summary of Changes

27. The Challenge (contd 2). Remember this? There is no right and wrong : it’s all a question of how you read it and whether you can justify and gain support for your viewpoint. Progress depends upon you doing this. You have the right to read it YOUR way…if you have the justification and to lead if you have the power, position & persuasion.

28. The Challenge (contd 3). The millennial discontinuity Not only is it the role and duty of successive generations to test and question ‘received wisdom’ with a view to adding to and improving upon it where appropriate, your generation, perhaps as no other in time, has come to the zenith of its powers at the turn of the millennium where societies worldwide for psychological, sociological, historical, cultural and religious reasons are seeking change accompanied by justice and equity. There is, for this reason, perhaps a seemingly greater pressure for such change to be forthcoming than ever before … and in this age of expectancy and instant gratification people will be looking to your generation to provide it . In that sense, perhaps your duty and responsibility to challenge the prevailing order and way of thinking creatively and constructively is the greater.

29. Ben Okri : extracted from his ‘Mental Flight : An anti-spell for the 21st century’ Sunday Times 3/1/99 ..Will we allow ourselves merely to drift / into an era of more of the same / An era drained of significance, without shame / Without wonder of excitement / just the same low-grade entertainment / An era boring and predictable / Flat stale and unprofitable / In which we drift / In which we drift along / Too bored and too passive to care / About what strange realities rear / their heads in our days and nights / Till we awake too late to the death of our rights / Too late to do anything / Too late for thinking / about what we have allowed / to take over our lives / While we cruised along in casual flight / mildly indifferent to storm or sunlight. Or might we choose to make / this time a waking up event / A moment of world empowerment / To pledge in private, to be more aware / more playful, more tolerant and more fair,/ More responsible, more wild more loving / Awake to our unsuspected powers, more amazing. / We rise or fall by the choice we make / It all depends on the road we take / And the choice and the road each depend / On the light that we have, the light we wend / On the light we use / or refuse /. On the lies we live by and from which we die. Every moment thus carries / the monumental in the ordinary / Transcending the political / Hinting at the evolutionary …..

30. Parting Gesture “ If not me: who? If not now: when?”