I was surprised to see 2 of my former colleagues at Hay Group challenge a key proposition driving that firm's executive development marketing that the changes in demographics will cause the developing world to run short of leaders and create a crisis:
http://www.talentmgt.com/recruitment_retention/2008/May/630/index.php
They assert that firms will adapt and develop different methods of pathing to fill essential roles.
This is over-optimistic. The fact is that executive and senior management positions will be filled by people much earlier in age ... with less experience. There is nothing inherently wrong in this but this will require radically different approaches to develop leaders and ensure they are exposed to a range of contexts much earlier in their career. I'm not encouraged that today leading organisations are embracing ways to cause real acceleration.
Let me know which approaches you see that look promising for accelerating executive talent. Or am I worrying unnecessarily?
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