There has been a great deal of conversation regarding the labor shortage in the manufacturing community, and by now most are aware that this is not a problem unique to industrial America - there are shortages in everything from transportation to construction to health care. An issue that doesn't get quite the same attention is the labor crisis at the upper-management level. This is becoming just as acute as the baby boom generation slides towards its peak retirement years. Every day there are some 10,000 boomers calling it a career, and the vast majority of those are in upper management or are owners in that generation. There are tens of thousands of people facing the succession issue in the very near future and few have a good plan in place.
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