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Reinvent Your Career and Your Life: Doing What You Want--Career Strategies for Boomers
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5093BC-ELeadership and People ManagementToday, far too many Boomers find themselves begrudgingly sticking with their current employers. But in an age of unprecedented opportunities for this generation of workers, this needn't ever happen. This chapter discusses strategies for tapping into and realizing what you want out of life and career, whether you hope to continue traditional work, branch out into nonprofit or volunteer work, or focus on family. This chapter is excerpted from "Ret...Starting at €8.20
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Challenge Your Assumptions--and Your Employer's: How Boomers Can Benefit from the Changing Workplace
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5098BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chapter takes a close look at the expanding life choices of the Boomer generation and the implications these choices will have on how workers of this generation will spend the rest of their lives. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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Why Do You Think What You Think: Boomers' Views on Work and the World
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5099BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThis chapter profiles Boomers and their unique worldview and relationship to work, comparing their attitudes and expectations to those of other generations. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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British Library CEO Lynne Brindley on helping to spur business innovation (Spanish version)
Brindley, Lynne; Cliffe, SarahArticle HBS-F0711GLeadership and People ManagementThe CEO of the British Library explains how the United Kingdom's exclusive repository for rare books, manuscripts, and scientific papers has loosened up the design of its Business & IP Centre to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.Starting at €8.20
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Renegotiate Your Deal: Getting What You Want--Career Strategies for Boomers
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5096BC-ELeadership and People ManagementMore and more new work arrangements are becoming available. This chapter explores what is reasonable to ask for-and to expect-for Boomers who are engaged in the work they currently do and are interested in remaining in their field in the years to come. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence
Cialdini, Robert B.; Cliffe, SarahArticle HBS-R1307F-ELeadership and People ManagementThe ability to persuade others to contribute to your efforts is a key skill for managers, for team members--for anyone who wants to elevate the probability of success. Research by leading social scientist Robert Cialdini has found that persuasion works by appealing to certain deeply rooted human responses: liking, reciprocity, social proof, commitment and consistency, authority, and scarcity. In this edited interview with HBR's executive editor, ...Starting at €8.20
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Sort Through Your Options: Developing Your Boomer Career Strategy
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5097BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAs a Boomer in the wonderful post-"empty nest" and pre-"old age" midlife years, you have an unprecedented opportunity for satisfaction, productivity, exploration, and creativity-for reinventing yourself. This chapter provides some guidance for sorting through the many available options and forming a career strategy. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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Introduction: New Career Opportunities for the Boomer Generation
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5100BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe Boomer generation will be the first to enjoy a significant period of healthy, active non-childrearing adult life, and demographic shifts in the talent pool present mid-career workers with an important opportunity to rethink their relationship to work. This chapter offers Boomers the chance to step back and take a fresh look at life and career, and to consider the opportunities afforded them by the new world of work. This chapter is excerpted...Starting at €8.20
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British Library CEO Lynne Brindley on helping to spur business innovation
Brindley, Lynne; Cliffe, SarahArticle HBS-F0711G-ELeadership and People ManagementThe CEO of the British Library explains how the United Kingdom's exclusive repository for rare books, manuscripts, and scientific papers has loosened up the design of its Business & IP Centre to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.Starting at €8.20
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Managing for the Long Term
Bower, Joseph L.; Paine, Lynn S.; Cliffe, Sarah; Barton, Dominic; Manyika, James; Keohane Williamson, SarahArticle HBS-R1703B-ELeadership and People ManagementIn this issue's Spotlight we examine how a focus on maximizing shareholder value--which leads to short-termism for management and boards--can threaten companies' health and financial performance. In "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership," Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine examine the foundations and flaws of agency theory, which views shareholders as the "owners" of a company and is behind the current widespread idea that corporate managers s...Starting at €8.20