Contents

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE  Analyzing the Problem

Red Alert

Identifying the Real Problem(s)

Defining Organizational Leadership and Management

Leader/Talent Survey

Leader/Talent Results and Conclusion

CHAPTER TWO  Background

Changing Labor Market Dynamics

Military Manpower

Demographics

Capital Deepening

Skills Planning in the New Century

Laws and Regulations

How DOPMA Hurts Productivity

Personnel Expenditures

CHAPTER THREE  Total Volunteer Force Reforms

Recommendations

The Heart of Talent Management

A Market Revolution?

Core Principles of the TVF

Why Not Pilot Projects?

Consequences

CHAPTER FOUR  Reforming Evaluations

Inflation without Limits

Performance Evaluations in and out of the Military

Talent Distribution in Theory versus Reality

The Need for Peer Evaluations

Recommendation: Team Rating

Conclusion

CHAPTER FIVE  Reforming Promotions and Assignments

Leader/Talent

The Roots of Personnel Inefficiency

Promotions and Timetables

Aiming High: Case Study in Choosing Commanders in Today’s Air Force

Restore Command Authority

Timing and the Talent Marketplace

The TVF Job-Matching Process

CHAPTER SIX  Reforming Compensation

Leader/Talent

Unheeded Compensation Commissions

Transform Base Pay from Tenure to Role and Responsibility

Transform the Military Pension

What’s Wrong with the Defined Benefit

The Value of Work

TVF Alternatives

Additional Background

Conclusion

APPENDIX  Leader/Talent Categories and Elements

Leadership Categories and Elements

Management Categories and Elements

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENDNOTES

INDEX

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