Love Based Leadership With Dan Pontefract

The bell has rung for the last time. Every system inside your organization — pension plans, hiring funnels, succession charts, talent pipelines — was designed for a workforce shaped like a bell. Wide base of young workers. Solid middle. Smaller top of retirees. That shape is gone. Permanently. What we have now is a bulb: narrow base, swollen top, and a working middle being squeezed from both ends. In episode one of Five Shades of Grey — a five-part limited series within Leadership NOW — Dan Pontefract introduces the demographic argument at the heart of his sixth book, "The Future of Work Is Grey." Why South Korea's recent fertility "rebound" is a statistical mirage. Why the FAA is short 3,000 air traffic controllers and counting. Why nearly half of America's nurses plan to leave the profession by 2029. Why eight in ten utility workers in America now sit at firms where a quarter or more of staff are over 55. And why none of this is a future problem. The bill comes due. The bill always comes due.