The Talent Revolution has been pivotal in exposing work-life longevity as the most influential driver transforming today’s workplaces. It offers a competitive edge for organizations smart enough to capitalize on its lessons.
In a rare turn from the norm, this book positions older workers as revolutionaries and reveals how intergenerational organizations that engage employees across all life stages will outperform their competitors. In this updated paperback edition, authors Lisa Taylor and Fern Lebo draw on their expertise in leadership and career development to offer a timely picture of the post-pandemic modern workplace – defined by hybrid arrangements, shifting expectations, and evolving employee-employer dynamics. With clarity and precision, they describe new models, debunk commonly held myths about older workers, demolish justifications for traditional structures and attitudes, and build the case for a reset that will help smart companies profit from their most valuable assets, all while taking into consideration our current realities. Through case studies, metrics, strategies, and tactics, The Talent Revolution explores the impact of supercharged workforce demographics on the future of work, and offers new, actionable strategies for transforming an aging workforce into a competitive advantage.
Plotting new directions for both organizations and employees, Taylor and Lebo guide us towards the opportunities that come with leaving behind outdated career models and embracing longer working life expectancies in the workplace.
Foreword
Preface
Part One: The Future of Work: Theoretical Models and Frameworks
1. The Future of Work and the Talent Revolution
2. A Social Revolutionary Lens: Welcome to the Revolution
3. A Career and Work Lens: Boomers as Revolutionaries
4. An Organizational Lens: The Broken Talent Escalator
Part Two: Exploding Myths and Challenging Untruths
5. From Theory to Practice: The Costs of Myths and Untruths
6. Money Myths
7. Peak Performance Myths
8. From Myth to Smart Strategy
Part Three: Capitalizing on the Intergenerational Workforce
9. Getting Focused: Tools and Approaches
10. Critical Actions for CEOs
11. Critical Actions for HR Leaders
12. Critical Actions for Frontline Managers
13. From the Talent Revolution to the Future of Work
Acknowledgments
References
Index
Lisa Taylor, a former lawyer, is a faculty member in the School of Journalism at Ryerson University. She spent more than a decade as a CBC Radio & Television journalist where her work was recognized by the Gemini Awards, the Atlantic Journalism Awards, and the Bnai Brith Media Human Rights Awards.
Fern Lebo, author, speaker, trainer, and coach, is President of FrontRunner Communications, specializing in corporate training, employee effectiveness, and relationship building.
