The arrival of the sustained highly competitive environment and the new under life skill and emotional competency demographic has led to the emergence of seven threats. These threats create a clear and present danger to current and future company performance, profits, sustainability and place shareholder value and equity at risk. This book explores the following seven threats:

1. The use of a non-highly competitive, market-oriented organizational leadership structure
2. The use of a non-highly competitive, market-oriented strategic platform
3. The inability to identify and select a top-performing CEO
4. The inability to reduce employee problems as a percentage of all workplace problems from its current level of over 90% to 30%
5. The inability to consistently produce a workforce with the skills to meet today’s challenges and deliver the innovative programs that drive business success
6. The inability to achieve a highly-competitive market-oriented human capital index
7. The inability to have more than 18% of managers able to achieve desired results, engage team members and customers, and sustain a culture of high productivity