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Phased Retirement: The First 90 Days
For anyone starting a new role and going through a career transition, Michael Watkin’s 2003 book, The First 90 Days, is an excellent guide. The subtitle is, “Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels.” The book provides insights and specific steps to help job-changers navigate the unfamiliar surroundings of a new role – perhaps at a new company…
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Phased Retirement: The Retirement Pivot
The concept of a “pivot” has steadily worked its way into our vocabulary since the 2011 introduction of the book, The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries. A pivot has been used to describe a variety of things – even the change in agenda for a meeting that’s drifted off course. But this is no willy-nilly switching of a game plan…
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Phased Retirement: Defining Insanity
A commonly heard definition of insanity is attributed to Albert Einstein. That is, “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” The first thing that comes to mind for me is the Minnesota Vikings trying to establish their running game. The second thing that comes to mind, since I’m a contrarian, is “Is that really…
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Phased Retirement: Tom Brady Theory
I’ve read several articles now noting that after 40 days of retirement the multiple Superbowl and MVP winner “unretired.” My theory is that he’s really pursuing a Phased Retirement. He’s coming back, yes, but will probably avoid the playoffs to start dialing back his workload. Had he done this in the first place, he wouldn’t have had to retire and…
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Phased Retirement: Make Some Waves
When someone retires, regardless of how much preparation they’ve done, they’ll likely go through a series of stages. In a traditional retirement scenario, you might have stages that look like this: Retirement Day (yay!), the Honeymoon Period (this is so awesome!), Disillusionment (is this it?), and then it’s either Figure it Out…or Back to Work (Tom Brady)! Why not plan…
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Phased Retirement: Embrace Transition
My latest post dealt with the topic of change, and how changes in our lives can be hard to navigate and accept. Even positively perceived changes may require us to move on from what’s been familiar to us for a long time. In that post I pointed out that we should acknowledge that change can be hard to process, and…
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