Governing Magazine reports that perhaps the best people to replace retiring Baby Boomers on the job are other Baby Boomers looking for work.
There’s evidence to suggest that a good number of today’s retirees will want the work. For one thing, some will have no choice but to earn extra income. That’s partially because of what’s [...]
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January 9, 2009
delawareonline | Wilmington Blogs:Second Takes | The News Journal
January 9, 2009
Harvard starts program for late-career professionals – International Herald Tribune
“This is about deploying a leadership force to have an impact on major social problems,” said Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School who heads the program. “We want to make the case to the world that experience matters.”
Nonprofit organizations face a collective “leadership deficit” over the next decade of more than [...]
January 9, 2009
Open Letter to President-Elect Obama from a University President
Don Kassner, President of Andrew Jackson University writes:
“Former lifelong educator and business guru Peter Drucker, quoted in Forbes several years ago, said “Today’s buildings [college facilities] are hopelessly unsuited and totally unneeded.” He further commented, “colleges won’t survive as residential institutions.” Drucker predicted the Internet would change the way students learned, and the evidence continues [...]
January 9, 2009
Retooling for encore careers
Retooling for encore careers
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January 9, 2009
Top ten retirement trends to watch in 2009 | RetirementRevised
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January 7, 2009
Drucker on Abandonment
Mid lifers might want to pay attention to the words of Peter Drucker.
The following works for people as well as corporations.
“Effective executives know that they have to get many things done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate. And the first rule for the concentration of executive efforts is to slough off the past that has ceased to [...]
December 28, 2008
Civic Ventures :: Encore Career Survey
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December 8, 2008
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Discussion Details
What market dynamics or policy initiatives would be most effective to enhance energy awareness and create more sustainable energy consumption practices? What steps should individuals, governments, and other organizations take to reduce overall consumption and use our current energy supply more wisely?
via willyoujoinus.com – Energy Efficiency and Conservation Discussion Details.
Encouraging boomers to live a university [...]
December 8, 2008
Encore Summit blog: Live! | Encore: Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life
Encore Summit blog: Live!
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We Baby Boomers should consider right sizing our lives, returning to a university lifestyle, At 51, I am obsolete, with an engineering degree and an MBA, with 30 years of experience in manufacturing that is no longer [...]
December 8, 2008
Our growing education gap
Our growing education gap.
We continue to work hard at correcting the wrong thing. We ask “who will provide the necessary tax base to care for an aging population?” Baby boomers need to take care of themselves, preventing the social burden, by retooling in relevant occupations, and working longer. The already well educated, intelligent, baby boomers(1946-1964), [...]
