Another quality of the visionary, along with presence, truth telling, discernment, wisdom, etc., is a combination of empathy and humility that I call humanility. Being humble is to be free from false pride and arrogance. It does not mean lacking confidence or being falsely self-deprecating, for it rests on a clear sense of the truth […]
My Favorite New Year’s Rituals
This weekend marks another year ending and a new one beginning, and an opportunity to both celebrate and reflect, with our loved ones as well as within ourselves. In this, my last blog post of 2016, I would like to share some of my favorite rituals for celebrating the turning year. The first is a […]
Women, The Patriarchy and Success
In another blog post, I talk about women’s increasing economic and professional power as well as the backlash from the patriarchy in the form of assaults on women’s rights and bodies and a resurgence of the old boy’s club in corporate America. The answer is to bypass the current system. How, you ask? We must recognize […]
Is the Glass Ceiling Half Empty or Half Full?
When we look at women’s power in the workforce, whether running their own businesses or working as executives or on boards in the corporate world and academia, we can view the situation as negative or positive depending on our focus. Obviously, women are still underpaid and vastly underrepresented in positions of power, although this is […]
Age is Not a Barrier: Encore Encore
I often say that most of us have the potential to do 95 percent of our best work in the last 5 percent of our lives. As we age, we become well poised to offer a range of perspectives and skills, which can only come with time and experience. This is true throughout our lives […]
Presence and Invisibility
The phenomenon of growing increasingly invisible as we age, and using that invisibility to empower us and others to be change agents, is related deeply with the visionary attribute I discussed in “Unwrapping Your Presence” and “Stop, Look, and Listen”. The invisible power to fly under the radar and quietly lead change, which I talk […]
No Regrets
Palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware wrote an eye-opening blog post about the five most common regrets she hears from people in the last weeks of their lives. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I […]
Innovation in Our 50s and Beyond
Dominic Basulto’s article in the Washington Post (Why Baby Boomers Are the Innovators of the Future) discusses the shift occurring in the world of entrepreneurship. Much of the article focuses on what we’ve discussed here before (Ageless), such as the Kauffman Foundation’s findings about the rapidly rising rate of entrepreneurship among the 55–64 age group. […]
Twenty-First Century Boomtime Careers and Higher Education
It’s crucial for all industries and fields to reach out to the 50-plus demographic; some of the most savvy are doing so. Higher education is no exception. Both Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter at Harvard and a spanking-new initiative at Stanford University are trawling for a new kind of student seeking to reinvent the next stage […]
Midlife Crisis doesn’t Discriminate
Darling, you got to let me know, Should I stay or should I go? If you say that you are mine, I’ll be here till the end of time. So you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go? ~The Clash “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?” As the future […]
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