Passion & Purpose – Amy Edmondson
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both exciting and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by experts in business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond financial and health advice to offer deep insights into the broader aspects of retirement—addressing identity, relationships, and creating a fulfilling post-career life structure.
With engaging prose, the book shares retirement stories of 14 individuals and draws on over 200 interviews to explore how retirement requires personal and structural reinvention. You’ll gain valuable wisdom on the four key phases: deciding to retire, detaching from work, building a new, provisional life structure, and settling into a stable but adaptable retirement.
Each chapter highlights how the interplay of self, life structure, and external context shapes the transition, showing that retirement satisfaction depends on their alignment. It also explores the critical roles of family, friends, and organizations in supporting this shift.
This book is for anyone seeking deeper insights and practical guidance on the psychological, social, and life-restructuring aspects of retirement. It’s also a valuable resource for family, friends, helping professionals, and leaders supporting retiring individuals.
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Kathy E. Kram is the R.C. Shipley Professor in Management, Emerita, at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. Her research interests include adult development and career dynamics, relational learning and leadership, peer coaching and executive coaching, diversity issues in executive development, and mentoring and developmental networks.
Douglas "Tim" Hall is the Friedman Professor of Management, Emeritus at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. His research interests include with careers, retirement, work-life integration, and leadership development.
Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Teresa is the coauthor of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.
Marcy Crary is Professor Emerita, Bentley University. Her research interests focus on diversity pedagogy, cross-identity work relationships, and transitions in the “third phase” of life.
Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor, Emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is the author of Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives.
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers? That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose,...
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