Our old friend and colleague Ira Wolfe has been collecting statistics about the shortage of skilled workers for some time, and has authored a book on the Perfect Labor Storm.

Ira has now created a five-minute video with some of the statistics. It’s dramatic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAXZIeaNrAA

To be successful, companies will have to view their people as their #1 [...]

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A preliminary report issued by the Conference Board has found that non-profits – whose growth is currently outpacing the rest of the economy – will likely be hit hard by the talent shortage just when it needs talent the most.

The demographic of the retiring baby-boomers affects almost all sectors, but executive-level and leadership skill [...]

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Tamara Erickson, one of the authors of the Harvard Press book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills And Talent” testified before the U.S. Senate last year on workforce trends. Her main points:

The workforce is older, and limited in availability. There will be a shortage of skilled workers of traditional work age [...]

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According to the recent Accenture High Performance Workforce Study, corporate executives surveyed say there is a problem with skills in the workforce. Critical functions are reported as not performing as strongly as they should:

Only 14% of respondents described the overall skill level of their organizations’ entire workforce as industry leading.
Just 20% of respondents said the [...]

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