Winning the Global Talent Showdown

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PREFACE

Around the world, jobs and labor markets are undergoing a radical transformation. Between 2010 and 2020, much of the world will experience a watershed era of rapid technological, economic, social, and cultural change. This new era will offer more people the promise of high-skill/high-wage careers that also will support broader global economic development—if we can find better ways to create the talent needed to fill these jobs.

Between 2010 and 2020, nations all over the globe will experience profound changes in employment because of scientific and technological advances. Winning the Global Talent Showdown shows how the great majority of businesses around the world are underperforming precisely because their most significant assets—their ...