How Change Often Requires Loss – Baby Boomers
Maury Lederman had a choice: Leave his firm and retire, or leave his firm and move to another one. Kind of like Henry Ford saying, you can buy a car any color you like, as long as it's black...
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When Did I Become Sweetie? – Baby Boomers
I thought I only was stopping to fill up my car on gas. A few weeks back, when getting gas for my car, I stopped at a new station/store. The sign on pump said to insert my chip credit card into the pump (as this...
Read MoreCan Anyone Make Their Business Sustainable? – business succession
In the book, "Sustainable: A Fable about Creating a Personally and Economically Sustainable Business", Josh Patrick winds a fine tale of a business owner who will sound remarkably familiar to a lot of business owners. Josh is fine story-teller, and I have been following his blog...
Read MoreCan You Go A Few More Miles? – Working and Retirement
In a recent Boston Globe article by Evan Horowitz, "Go A Few More Miles", the writer posits that the best way to stretch your retirement savings is to work longer and build up Social Security. If you look at the numbers (Horowitz is an analyst...
Read MoreDo You Need a “Grow to Go” Strategy? – Business Transition
"Grow to Go", is a shorthand that I use for a business owner that needs (or simply) wants to grow the business to a higher level of revenues and/or profits to make a more successful business transition. OK, but why does someone who wants (or...
Read MoreShould Retirement include a Plan C?
A recent Boston Globe article, Retiring not final act for these baby boomers, shared stories of Baby Boomers taking the road less traveled, i.e. not just accepting the Golden Years formula for retirement. What I loved about the stories is that each person took some time to...
Read More“Done With Work” – Life After Retirement book review
Review posted by By Jack Beauregard Retirement creates an unnatural life sequence. Throughout our lives most events proceed in order, from beginning to middle to end. But by its very nature, retiring changes the normal flow. Retirement starts with the ending of the life you experienced for decades, and...
Read MoreThey’ll Have To Wheel Me Out Of Here On A Stretcher – Business Succession
by Larry Gard, Ph.D. According to a 2014 Gallup poll, 10% of baby boomers said they had no plans to retire. I’ve met many of these “retirement resisters” over the years and they often proudly declare their intention to work indefinitely. On the one hand I...
Read MoreHave We Baby Boomers Really Destroyed EVERYTHING?
Perhaps you read the article in the Boston Globe or via social media, "How The Baby Boomers Destroyed Everything" by Bruce Canon Gibney, a venture capitalist and writer and the author of the forthcoming book “A Generation of Sociopaths: How The Baby Boomers Betrayed America.” ...
Read MoreHow Will You Fill 8,000 days of Retirement?
Imagine you have decided to retire in your 60s. Probably feeling good, or maybe not? Initially it may be liberating, but then you face the daunting realization that you may have decades to live with not standard to-do list. That is the premise of the...
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