How to Move Beyond the DIY Transition to Encore Careers

By | Nov 16, 2009

Editor’s note: This column appeared in BusinessWeek’s special report, “The Case Against Retirement.” After 25 years of climbing her first ladder at Hewlett-Packard, Gina Cassinelli knew it was time for a change. “All of a sudden, you wake...

Purpose Prize Summit: Time to Change the World

By | Nov 3, 2009

What a weekend! We started on Saturday night to honor the Purpose Prize fellows. Ann Higdon started us on our journey with her parable of the older master passing the keys to the new generation of leaders. Robert Egger closed out the evening, urging us to find ways to...

Rosabeth Kanter Calls for Social Logic in ‘SuperCorp’

By | Oct 27, 2009

Last week I spent the evening at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, listening to Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter talk about her new book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, and field...

Generation E: The Boomers’ Legacy

By | Sep 21, 2009

Sarah Kershaw of The New York Times called me recently to ask about the impact on the psyche of baby boomers of all the celebrity deaths of the past few months. From Michael Jackson (50) and Farah Fawcett (62), through Patrick Swayze (56) and Mary Travers (of Peter,...