Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Bookshelf

Impending crisis: too many jobs, too few people.

By Roger Herman, Tom Olivo and Joyce Gioia. Oakhill Press, 332 pages. $30.

This book is constructed around a central thesis: Demographic patterns suggest that by as soon as the year 2010, there will be 10 million more jobs in the U.S. than there are people to fill them -- a manifestation of long-term trends. That poses a critical question to companies everywhere: what do you intend to do about it? The answer, as detailed in the book is all about being proactive and becoming more attractive to employees -- or else watch able bodies and, more importantly, top talent, gravitate to others.

The authors -- Herman and Gioia and futurists, and Olivo is...