I had a friend about five years ago who was terminated as the manager of an IT team and was disconsolate about being able to find another job at age 51. My advice was that he needed to turn his thinking around, that he had years of experience in IT...

If you've watched the presidential debates, you may have noticed what I've seen. There is no mention about older Americans, except in the context of discussing the entitlement programs. We have 78 million Baby Boomers in the U.S., over one quarter of the total U.S. population, and an...

The famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky once said, "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

With 30 years added to longevity in the 20th century, people 55 and older need to think about how they want to spend the rest of their extended lives and what...

According to a 2011 AARP survey, 80 percent of Baby Boomers indicate their intent to continue working after leaving their regular career jobs, and more than half of them intend to do so on a part-time basis. Some companies are already taking action to accommodate this coming wave...

We're all familiar by now with the three stages of adulthood: Early adulthood from 18-40, mid-adulthood from 40-62 and mature adulthood from 62-85. Dr. Elliott Jaques and I proposed a third stage of adulthood from 62-85 in a paper we co-authored in 2000, "The Evolution of Adulthood: A New Stage,"...

We all know that an entrepreneur is an individual who builds capital through risk and initiative. But is it nature or nurture that causes people to become entrepreneurs? Is it a combination of the two? Entrepreneurial successes are taking root each and every day; many of them were fostered from...

In 1950 there were 16.5 workers for every retired worker. In 2012 the ratio was reduced to
3.3 to 1. By 2020 that ratio is projected at 2.2 to 1 and to almost 2 to 1 by 2030. Is anyone considering these projections and their implications for...