FUTURE LEADERS NOW!
Why the world needs a whole lot of talent,
and why ASTD must help train it
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FORESIGHT 101
STRUCTURAL + ACTOR + WILDCARD EVENTS
FACTORS DECISIONS

1. We need talent in general
2. We need leaders in particular
All of 'em?
3. You need to train them

Four strategic trends in the talent crisis
AGING
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
GENERATION X & Y

WE MUST DO
WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Replace a workforce of 70 million with one of 30 million

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Prepare for constant immigration from an additional three
billion human beings who want hot showers, jobs, etc.

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Get clean water to the 50% of humans who still don’t have
the sanitary conditions of the Roman Empire

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Get clean water to the 50% of humans who still don’t have
the sanitary conditions of the Roman Empire

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Make people healthy in a system forecast to cost from
two trillion to FOUR trillion per year
That stings a
little... Well, I’m
sucking
$400,000 out
of your blood.

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Manage a “knowledge economy”

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Manage unprecedented urbanization
1800: 3% 1900: 6% 2007: 51% 2030: 60%

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Manage unprecedented urbanization
1800: 3% 1900: 6% 2007: 51% 2030: 60%

LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE:
Move ecological business from
feel-good to functional
GreenWashing Cleantech
Ocean wave energy
Organic baby Carbon neutral wine
clothes
“All natural”
Cheetos
Ford’s River Rouge FutureGen clean coal
production facility electrical plant

FOUR THINGS TO DO TODAY:
• View training and employee retention as part of the profit column
• Offer secession planning and mentoring so power can be handed off
smoothly
• Spread the word about these global challenges
• Work with Human Resources to prepare for a diverse workforce - half-time,
retiree, immigrant, full-time, working mother

THANK YOU!
Eric Garland
Competitive Futures, Inc.
1317 F St. NW Wash, DC 20004
www.competitivefutures.com
(202) 508-1496