Please - no more!
If I have to read one more article about the looming crisis facing the world economy as Boomers prepare to retire, I think I will scream! None of us need reminding about this fact anymore (although many businesses need to wake up to it - which is exactly what TomorrowToday.biz helps many to achieve) - but the Internet seems obsessed with the fact this month! Similarly, there is an overabundance of articles on the looming pension crisis and the sale of retirement properties and so forth. But is this all that is to be said about Boomers these days? Not good for their self-esteem, I’m sure. So it’s no surprise that, according to WQOW 18 in Chippewa Valley, drug counsellors are increasingly treating Boomer Meth-addicts! If there is nothing left to say about a whole generation other than their retirement plans, it must be getting very dull indeed. Women in Canada, apparently, are trying to buck the trend by working longer than their husbands. And in Japan, some women are waiting until their Boomer husbands retire before going out to get their own job! Things are not so simple as it seems at first…
It seems as if we are reminded on a daily basis – ad nauseum – just how many Boomers are coming up for retirement and the drain they will be on resources. In the US, Leonard Steinhorn has posed an interesting question: “Imagine if the generation getting ready to retire wasn’t the baby boomers, but the World War II generation — or the Greatest Generation, as it’s popularly lionized. No one would be calling those Americans a burden or a drag. If they were retiring today, we’d be writing columns full of praise for their sacrifice and discussing what our nation owes them and how it’s our moral duty to support them. Why the different attitudes toward these two generations? Why is one idealized as heroic and giving, while the other is disdained as self-indulgent and taking? It’s time to reassess…The boomers’ problem is not that they haven’t accomplished a great deal; it’s that we take their accomplishments for granted and don’t give them any credit.â€?
The March GenerationWatch is 
What did you want to be when you were a child? What profession was it that kept you day-dreaming out of the window in class instead of focussing on what the teacher was saying?
Here is an interesting article from 
The UK is suffering a Pensions crisis. We’ve known about it for years and are constantly warned about it by Government and Financial Services. Estimates suggest a growing pension gap of some £27 billion per year. As Charlotte Black, marketing director at Brewin Dolphin says, “Many…are not taking any action to address the problem and are sleepwalking into disaster.�
The Department of Trade and Industry in the UK have recently comissioned some research into working patterns in Britain. 3,000 Managers and 20,000 staff took part, 82% from the private sector and 18% from the public sector. Here are a few interesting findings…
Just fantastic! This is wonderful news for us in the UK.
So, what is the latest craze sweeping the UK amongst children at the moment? Is it a Star Wars toy or something from War of the Worlds? Is it the new Monopoly, updated to include new London sites and streets? No, none of that…
Well, avid blog-reader, you may remember some time ago (4 June to be exact), that I 
How the music industry has changed over the last 20 years – it is truly incredible. But the ‘new kid on the block’ that, I along with many others believe, will transform the music industry for ever is 
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As I write this, I am sitting in a Cathedral. An act of worship is going on all around me.
When we need answers to the great questions in life, we turn in prayer to God. Or, at least, that used to be the usual pattern. Now, it is argued, people turn to Google to find the answers to those great questions…. As the article notes, “Google is the modern Oracle, the all-knowing mechanical sage we consult to find, if not the answers to life’s questions, then at least a comfortable, reasonably priced hotel in Torquay.”
Two very different men who are transforming the face of British football - with an impact across the globe.
We all admire strong leadership. In politics and religion, we may not agree with the leader’s intent, policies or beliefs but we are still free to admire their strength. In the business environment, strong leadership is not only encouraged, it is demanded of those who have been given responsibilities in the workplace.
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