Generations #249 By Hank Silverberg In his inaugural address in 1961, John F. Kennedy talked about a turnover in leadership. He used a metaphorical torch being passed to a new generation. Going out was the generation of Eisenhower and Roosevelt, and coming in was a new generation: "...proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed..." His message evoked a new way of thinking by a younger generation which had come of age during World War Two and was then ready to lead. Today we are again on the threshold of a new generation of leadership. That Baby Boomer generation which took Kennedy's torch and ran with it for 60 years for better and for worse, has lost its momentum and perhaps its desire to continue in that role. We are now passing the torch again. The change has