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The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life
(Order Your Copy Now!)
by Ken Dychtwald and Daniel Kadlec (2005, John Wiley Publishers)
Today, increased longevity, much higher levels of health and vitality, and the assumption of continued personal growth have redefined the Boomer generation's expectations of their retirement years.
This new chapter of life is becoming a period of renewal and reinvention, marked by personal wisdom, accumulated wealth, skills honed over the course of a career and a sense that this is not a time of decline but instead, the beginning of the "Power Years."
This book is about how to prepare today for those later years, which are bursting with potential. The authors provide an optimistic blueprint for what to expect in the areas of health, jobs, lifestyles, investments and relationships, and how things will be so different from today as to be unrecognizable. The Power Years will serve as the definitive guidebook for 78 million boomers as we approach what used to be retirement years, offering useful and optimistic advice on how to get ready for what can be the best years of our lives.
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| Ken Dychtwald is the author of twelve books on aging-related issues, including Bodymind, Millennium: Glimpses Into the 21st Century, Healthy Aging, his best-seller Age Wave, Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old and his newest book, The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life. He is currently completing work on Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent to be published in March 2006. |
Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old
(1999, Tarcher/Putnam)
In this breakthrough book, Ken Dychtwald reveals how the aging of the baby-boomers – the largest generation in our history – will forever reshape our homes, families and businesses – and how we can be ready.
The baby boomers are fast approaching their senior years and will routinely live well beyond their eighties and nineties. This is an exciting new stage of life yet begs uncomfortable questions:
- With advances in longevity, at what age should people be considered "old" and therefore eligible for "old age" entitlements?
- How can we adjust work, retirement, education, marriage, and family relations to accommodate tens of millions of us living to eighty – or one hundred?
- What will we do when millions of Americans outlive the money set aside in their pensions and retirement plans?
- How can we transform our health-care system to be ready for the coming onslaught of Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases?
- What useful and productive roles can we create for elderly boomers, so that the age wave they are producing creates rich opportunities rather than crushing problems?
Dychtwald explains how individuals, businesses, and governments can best prepare for the challenges of a new era in which the priorities will be set based on the needs and desires of the elderly. He surveys how we each must make individual decisions right now to "age proof" our families and ourselves.
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Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent
by Ken Dychtwald, Tamara Erickson and Robert Morison, will be published in March, 2006
(Harvard Business School Press).
A relentless and unprecedented shift in the age distribution of the global labor pool is underway. Within the decade – as the massive boomer generation begins to retire and fewer skilled, younger workers are available
to replace them – companies in all industrialized markets will face a labor shortage and brain drain of dramatic proportions. Based on several acclaimed research studies, the authors argue that the only way to survive this demographic shift is to redefine retirement and transform management and human resource practices to attract, accommodate, and retain workers of all ages. They present innovative and exemplary management techniques for leveraging the knowledge and experience of mature workers, reengaging disillusioned mid-career workers, and attracting and retaining talented younger workers. This timely and actionable book will help leaders position their organizations to become employers of choice in tomorrow’s inevitably tighter – and more competitive – labor markets.
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©2006
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