Tamara J. Erickson is President of The Concours Institute, the research and education arm of BSG Alliance. She is a McKinsey Award-winning author and coauthor of the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent. Her “Across the Ages” blog appears weekly HarvardBusiness.org. Erickson’s next book, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, the first in a trilogy written to each generation in today’s workforce, will be available in early 2008, followed by Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work, later in the year. Her recent articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.