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We are living in a time of incredibly rapid, all pervasive, and continuous change. Some writers have suggested we are witnessing a paradigm shift, entering a new age: the post-industrial or the information age. While we are not able to fully describe what the new age will look like, we are able to see side-by-side, glimpses of the old and new paradigms. We are aware that old ways of doing business and thinking no longer work. Even the old questions have no meaning in the new context. Concepts that were opposites are often no longer opposite and are now related. For example, Republicans and Democrats work feverishly to point out their differences, but they sound more and more alike. They sound like politicians from the old paradigm. The opposite of feminine is not masculine; it is not feminine. These two constructs, once seen as polar, are no longer so.
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Brown, S.M. (1998). The Changing Context of Practice. In: Brown, S.M., Seidner, C.J. (eds) Evaluating Corporate Training: Models and Issues. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4850-4_1
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