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Annotation The traditional linear career path is disappearing in the 21st century world of work. This thought-provoking and engaging book follows the first groups of the Boomer generation worldwide as they begin to take steps away from a linear career pathinto an uncharted stage somewhere in between middle-age and old-age, a full-time professional life and retirement in the traditional sense of the word. After decades in successful careers in the United States, Europe, and Asia, these interviewees found themselves nearing the glass ceiling of age and facing traditional retirement. The problem was, nothing about this traditional "next step" corresponded to their aspirations or potential. All of them still felt in the prime of life, had no intention of getting in the back seat, and playing a passive role, but no longer wished to pursue the linear corporate, academic, or industrial career path to its bitter end. Unlike in earlier stages of career change, where one choice must often be made among the many possibilities, for people at this stage, plurality and flexibility are key. This desire for plurality and to extend "the prime of life" by a decade or more, can mean Non-Executive Boa

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Author

Dona Roche-Tarry; Dale Roche-Lebrec; Palgrave Connect

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan [distributor

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613318473

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Business, Management