Edward E. Gordon

Winning the Global Talent Showdown (eBook, ePUB)

How Businesses and Communities Can Partner to Rebuild the Jobs Pipeline

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

To help large and small businesses repair our broken talent pipeline, Ed Gordon offers counter-intuitive, bottom-up solutions through which corporations partner with NGOs, educational groups, local chambers of commerce and other stakeholders to rebuild the wellspring.

In the next few years the world will be facing a huge talent shortage. Demographic trends in America, Europe, Russia, and Japan are reducing the pool of new workers. As the need for talent grows, China's and India's educational systems won't be able to produce enough qualified graduates for themselves, let alone the rest of the world. But the heart of the problem is that the education-to-employment system worldwide is badly outmoded. We're not producing graduates with the kinds of technical, communications, and thinking skills needed in the 21st century.

In Winning the Global Talent Showdown, Ed Gordon surveys the sorry state of the world talent pipeline, with separate chapters on the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Each region faces its own challenges, yet the result is the same: a dramatic shortage of workers who can function in what Gordon calls our cyber-mental age.

But this is fundamentally a book about solutions. Gordon argues that we need to completely reinvent our talent-creation systemand some pioneering efforts are already underway. He describes dozens of gateways to the future, innovative partnerships in which local governments, schools, businesses, labor unions, parents, training organizations, community activists, and others are collaborating to develop completely new approaches to education. Based on personal experience, Gordon outlines how concerned citizens can establish these partnerships in their own communities. And he looks down the road to 2020, explaining how we can build on the best of these new ideas so that the jobs pipeline flows freely again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609944469
• Artikelnr.: 38331619

Autorenporträt

Edward Gordon is founder and president of Imperial Consulting Corporation. Imperial's clients include Microsoft; IBM; Walgreens; Marriott; the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Energy; the U.S. and local Chambers of Commerce; the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals; and many others. He is the author or coauthor of over 16 books, including The 2010 Meltdown, Skill Wars, and FutureWork.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Introduction: What's Causing the Global Talent Crunch?

Part 1 Making Sense of the Talent Shortage Around the World

Chapter 1 The Americas

Chapter 2 Asia

Chapter 3 Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia

Part 2 Harnessing the Power of Public-Private Partnerships

Chapter 4 Expanding the Talent Pool

Chapter 5 Fixing the Education-to-Employment System

Chapter 6 Producing New Talent

Resources
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author

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Preface
Introduction: What’s Causing the Global Talent Crunch?
Part One: Making Sense of the Talent Shortage Around the World
Chapter 1: The Americas
Chapter 2: Asia
Chapter 3: Europe and Russia
Part Two: Harnessing the Power of Public-Private Partnerships
Chapter 4: Expanding the Talent Pool
Chapter 5: Fixing the Education-to-Employment System
Chapter 6: Producing New Talent
Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

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