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• Based on retirement and other factors, the federal government is faced with the loss of 1/3 of the full-time permanent federal workforce by 2011.
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• In the corporate sector, a leadership vacuum is projected, as well. The demand for talented 35- to 45-year-olds will increase 25 percent over the next three decades—but the supply will decrease by 15 percent.
• In contrast, the number of workers aged 55 and higher is projected to grow at a rate four times the projected growth for the labor force overall.
• And who are the people in leadership positions in both the public and private sectors? The lion’s share is of the generation that roared: the boomers. The average age of a CEO is 56, and more than three out of five of the nation’s leaders are boomers.
Carol Orsborn