When Retirees Misjudge Their Desire for Leisure

It’s no secret that millions of Americans work hard, in extremely challenging and demanding jobs in their middle years. (Frankly, I’m one of them.) So it comes as no surprise that many feel desperate for a break when approaching traditional retirement age, when the...

Have You Got Your Second Wind?

[intro]In America’s youth, we loved older people. The early European settlers wore white wigs and cut their clothes to affect a hunched-over posture. In the early census, Americans lied and said they were older than their actual years. A popular saying of the...

A New Vision for Retirement: Productive and Meaningful

Our human world is changing dramatically. Expert demographers say that next year, in 2015, more Americans will be over 60 than are younger than 15 —and that half of the children born in the developed world since 2000 will live to mark their centenary. This trend is...

Harvard Business Review The Dangerous Myth of Reinvention

This year the youngest of the Baby Boomers will turn 50, a landmark in the demographic transformation of American society that makes all the more urgent questions about how best to tap the time, talent, and experience of millions flooding into the second half of life....