This post is a follow up to my first blog on The Real Future of Work – Part 1, which you can read HERE if you’re interested. I was intrigued by management consultant Ron Ashkenas’s article, Navigating The Emotional Side of a Career Transition, in the Harvard Business Review. Ashkenas had worked for the same firm for 37 years, starting just…
This week we have a guest blog from my friend, colleague and author of “Your Retirement, Your Way”, John Trauth. Steve Jobs was a master at reinvention. He reinvented himself many times throughout his career (Apple, NeXT, Pixar, and Apple again) and in the process, reinvented ways in which we communicate and interact with each other and the…
Bless the news cycle and social media. Without them I wouldn’t be able to keep my worrying updated and prioritized. The New York Times published this challenging piece on May 17th: A man whose penis was removed because of cancer has received the first penis transplant in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Thomas Manning, 64, a bank courier from Halifax, Mass., underwent the…
I’ve recently returned from Vancouver, where I presented a session at the American Board of Vocational Experts annual conference. My session was called THE NEW WORLD OF WORK FOR PAY: IT ISN’T ALL ABOUT JOBS ANYMORE. What do I mean, it’s not about jobs? Work has been with us forever. Jobs have not. Jobs as a configuration of work for…
When you get a do-over in love, are you destined to repeat the same relationship patterns, good and bad, that you’ve built over the years? Or are you older and wiser after a major heartbreak? Here’s a real-life tale of three couples. Arnie and Joan: Deeply intertwined until a death Arnie and Joan were married for 27 years before she…
My friend Peter emailed me after reading a recent opinion piece by David Brooks about the so-called midlife crisis. “The image of midlife as a time of crisis is almost the opposite of what this period of life is really about,” Peter wrote. I can’t agree enough. Midlife can be a bit disorienting and scary from time to time, but…
I usually stay away from politics in my blog, but Mr. Trump’s recent comments on abortion have single-handedly pushed me over the edge. “Punish the women,” indeed. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one case of immaculate conception on record. All of the other pregnant women in the history of the world have had a partner…
As my wife often remarks, she isn’t worried about me running off with a younger woman. A younger woman wouldn’t understand a word I said. My musical, political, historical and humor references would precede her by a number of years, possibly even extend to before she was born. Still, I do try to stay current, thanks to my grandchildren, ages…
As my friend Bob succumbed to leukemia, I followed him closely over a period of many months. We began with an ambulatory Bob telling me, laughing, “not to be a smartass” when I hurled jokey provocations at him. We ended with me feeding him thickened apple juice through a straw, until he couldn’t even manage that. He died last…
Ted is rather cherubic looking, if one can be 80 and cherubic at the same time. Round faced. Smiling. Enthusiastic.
He had seen me on TV, speaking, as I often do, about how we’re living longer, and what that means for the time we didn’t expect to have. We need to figure out a way to stay healthy, work if we want to, fill . . . Read More
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