Human resources manager Frank Heberer frowned. The internal-mail envelope he’d just torn open with great expectations contained the report he’d labored over for months. It outlined the long-term human resources strategy he believed Medignostics needed to adopt in order to remain competitive in the next 20 years. On the title page was affixed a yellow Post-it, with the words “Not a priority” penned in the ornate handwriting of Erwin Baum, the vice president of HR. Noting the crispness of the binder, Heberer doubted that anyone had read beyond his cover sheet.
He felt completely deflated. For the past six months, this had been his pet project. He’d
done all the research, and everything he’d read pointed to a rocky road ahead. The average age of the German population was steadily rising, and that had real implications for the midsize pharmaceutical company’s personnel. He flipped open his report to look once again at the shocking statistic: Without immigration, the country’s population would fall from 82 million to 24 million by 2100. “Granted, that’s a long way off,” he thought, “but what could be a bigger priority than a disaster you clearly see coming?”
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