It’s never too late to ‘get ahead’

U.S. and European companies frequently discard their older managers in the pursuit of younger and supposedly more imaginative, more flexible and more progressive replacements. And, as the search for "excellence" becomes more and more emphasized, the maximum managerial age considered acceptable continues to drop. New research shows a sharp drop in performance of 65 to 75-year-olds. And it’s probably because of the expectation that everyone needs to do more, and that they are unable to do the things they used to be able to do on the job. As a result, performance reviews put older managers out. Earlier assessment techniques have had considerable difficulty separating those who are reliably successful from those who are sometimes successful. The Meseekna Simulation Assessment differentiates competent from less competent managers, including those who looked exactly alike on the basis of earlier assessment techniques.