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Vol. 36, No. 11
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WHEN THE LEADERS LEAVE Who will run the manufacturing industry when the generation in charge eventually walks away? By RACHEL ABBEY McCAFFERTY and DAN SHINGLER
T he Baby Boom might be about to blow up in an executive suite near you. The generation was a demographic earthquake — after World War II, nearly 80 million Americans were born in the two decades of relative prosperity between 1946 and 1964. They grew up to fill the nation’s factories, steel mills, auto plants, farms and family businesses with new workers and, eventually, became the business owners and executives that still run many companies and industries today. Now, a little more than 65 years after the
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