Managers on the run

The crisis has got casualties: first come those loosing jobs, second come those who got paralyzed by fear of loosing job or stressed by the pressure and the menace of it... but next one "lost in action" could be the Talent Strategy. As unemployment rate grows, management could feel safe about retention ("where else they can go?"), which is not the case, Deloitte says in its Talent Edge 2000 report, as Talent Shortage is a big concern of top executives... 

So what's happening? Talent pool is much larger than before in a globalized world, with many talents to fish... but this increases cost of search and retention, and make people feel more and more a commodity. On top, Generations at work have probably never been so different, and Gen X is not making its role of transition and connection between the retiring Baby Boomers and the Y... and finally, management is much less attractive than in the past: as part of the public opinion is accusing corporations to be unhealthy for the planet and one of the causes for the current economic crisis, the new role-models are self entrepreneurs who aim to save the world with one single idea. 20 years of movies and negative literature have pictured the managerial jobs as unhealthy, useless, dangerous, unethetical, nonsense...

So, what to do??? Some answers are in the article @FastCompany, but one above all: develop the new generation of leaders, now. Before it's too late.