Pandemic: Solving Complex Problems Through Talent, Trust, Teamwork and Strategic Workforce Planning (The Leadership Game Series)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2026
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- Title
- Pandemic: Solving Complex Problems Through Talent, Trust, Teamwork and Strategic Workforce Planning (The Leadership Game Series)
- Author
- Booker, Matthew G
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798180017987
- Series
- Book 2 of 3: The Leadership Game Series
In the United States, more than 11,400 people turn 65 every single day. In Canada, 2.7 million Baby Boomers are approaching retirement — the largest and final wave of a generation that built most of the organizations we depend on. Generation Z, now the fastest-growing segment of the workforce on both sides of the border, averages just 1.1 years in a role before moving on. By 2030, the global talent shortage could leave more than 85 million jobs unfilled.
And 2026 is projected to be the last year where more people age into the North American workforce than age out of it. After this year, the gap inverts — and keeps widening.
In PANDEMIC, leadership expert Matthew G. Booker uses the acclaimed cooperative board game as a lens for the most urgent leadership challenge of the coming decade: how do you build the team, develop the talent, and create the culture that solves what no individual leader can solve alone?
Introducing the CURE Model
Built around four principles that mirror the game’s cooperative mechanics, the CURE Model gives leaders a practical framework for navigating the talent crisis:
C — Communicate Openly: Build the environment where the truth moves freely
U — Understand Strengths: See each person’s irreplaceable capability and develop it deliberately
R — Respond Together: Build the collective strength that complex problems demand
E — Empower Others: Develop people who can lead without you
Know Your Roles
At the heart of the book are nine talent archetypes — drawn directly from the Pandemic game’s character roles — that every organization needs and most leaders have never thought to name. The Medic. The Scientist. The Archivist. The Troubleshooter. The Dispatcher. Each one irreplaceable. Each one at risk. Each one requiring a specific, deliberate approach to develop and retain.
Your Treatment Plan
Every chapter closes with a Your Treatment Plan prompt — a practical, honest challenge that moves the ideas off the page and into your leadership immediately. The book concludes with a 90-Day Strategic Workforce Planning framework you can begin using this week.
PANDEMIC is the third book in Matthew G. Booker’s Leadership Game Series, following Snakes and Ladders and Checkmate. It stands alone as a complete leadership guide and works as the capstone of a trilogy that takes leaders from understanding their environment, to mastering their own strategy, to building the team that wins together.
Organizations don’t overcome complexity because of one extraordinary leader. They overcome complexity when they develop a culture where people communicate openly, understand strengths, respond together, and empower others. The cure is not a person. The cure is the culture.
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