CHAPTER 12
Aligning Your Company’s Talent to Navigate the Storm
MOST LARGE GLOBAL COMPANIES HAVE IDENTIFIED “TALENT” as their key business strategy. Boards and CEOs are now directly involved in reviewing their company’s leadership pipeline. HR executives are defining future leadership requirements given corporate growth projections and the supply and readiness of their leaders. The result? Many are worried about both talent and leadership, because they see the looming retirement of Baby Boomers and a compression in their leadership pipeline to groups of leaders at approximately the same age or stage of their development. Even more significantly, however, they’re worried that a large number of their leaders are simply unprepared to handle the ...