Positive Aging is the latest meme for describing new approaches to life post-50, approaches that focus on changing the conversation about aging to encompass the reality that the years ahead of us hold more potential, not less—for meaningful work and business, making a difference, and living lives of significance, value, and visibility. I am wholeheartedly […]
Archives for May 2013
Creativity after 40
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. —Dorothy Fuldheim I’ve had many clients tell me they are just not creative people, thinking the term describes only artistic people, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have creativity inside […]
Visionaries Have Wrinkles
This phrase caught my eye in my email inbox: “Meaningful Beauty.” It’s appealing, isn’t it? Who isn’t drawn by both beauty and meaning? The combination of the two was tantalizing, promising substance, a look at beauty that was beyond skin deep—which only made the actual content of the email all the more ironic. It was […]
The Retirement Age Myth
Whenever I read about retirement age, and how it has changed or is changing, all I can think of is “What difference does it make?” Why, in this day and age, do we even have a “retirement age”? Maybe in the past, a particular age could be associated with a time when people were physically […]
Thinking Outside the Test Tube
Trends in business and in science tend to follow a similar trajectory, and I’m not just talking about the research and discoveries that fuel innovations in what and how our businesses serve the world. Over time, in both broad fields, we’ve seen an increasing level of specialization. The more we learn about the world around […]
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