ABSTRACT
The rising middle class that the consumption economy produced began to erode at the beginning of the industrial regeneration in the mid-1970s, and that erosion has gotten worse ever since as productivity and wages continued to stagnate. A growth imperative, any given profession's reason to grow, is ultimately where succession lives—society needing leaders more every year than it did the last. As people, the relevance and meaning of people's lives hinge on leaders persistence in providing social mobility to themselves and one another. Despite leaders’ timeless human need to express commitment, loyalty, and accountability to one another inside these successful social mobility systems, to grow together, young colleagues are increasingly disconnecting from their firms. Words like equality, sustainability, relevance, and meaning were at the top of their minds as the means to achieve the very same goal of growth and social mobility for all.
