Corporate Collateral Damage – One in Five Employees is Underutilized

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 8, 2007 

Corporate Collateral DamageSquandered Potential
Having partnered with managers to assess the potential of over 6000 employees, our data shows that about one in five employees is capable of performing higher level work than that called for by their current role.

The Perilous Road to the Executive Suite
Young, high potentials are chronically underutilized as their problem solving capability outruns their experience and wisdom.? The road to gaining enough experience and wisdom in order to be trusted with a higher level role that matches their problem solving capability?is filled with potholes and landmines.?

Those who survive become executives; those who don’t become corporate collateral damage.

Let’s Eliminate Corporate Collateral Damage
Mission Minded Management?was created to raise corporate?collateral damage awareness, and we are looking for a few surviving executives interested in designing systems that eliminate this useless tragedy.?

Mr. or Mrs. Executive, if you lost a few high-quality brothers and sisters-in-arms along the perilous road to the executive suite, do it for them.??Or if not for them, do it for the next generation of recruits?whom you are struggling to attract and retain.??Technology has given them options your generation did not have.? They need no longer travel the corporate road; they can pave their own.

I received an email from a sister who was lost on the road to the executive suite.? Here are her words:

“Only rarely do I run across such a collection of writings I find that nail problems I’ve dealt with for years! “Mission Minded Management” is chock-full of statements I can directly relate to.? I swear, I think 90% of your posts I could comment on with an illustrative, first-hand anecdote!

Please, use your time to the benefit of the youth who are now assuming management roles and continue what you’ve started.?? I’ve already been used-up and dumped by the side of the managerial road, besides I’m too old now, so no need to respond to me.”

Do you have a corporate war story to share???

I’m OK.? You’re OK.? Let’s fix the system.

Filed Under Employee Engagement, Executive Leadership, High Potential, Organization Design, Requisite Organization, Talent Management

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