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You’re ready to leave full-time work but don’t want to retire, so what’s next?

First, be open to reinvention Across industries, knowledge professionals are contemplating their options following three decades or more of a fulfilling career. And they are not ready to retire in the traditional sense. So how will they navigate what the writer David Brooks calls “the new old age”, when work and career are no longer…

The golden rule for career progression

Key advice from Dr Howard Moskowitz applies across industries, shifting technologies and changing work norms ​For a lot of people, ‘payback’ has a negative connotation, like retribution and even revenge. But for Howard Moskowitz PhD, payback is a critical component of the ‘golden rule’ of work, as one’s career progresses. For Howard, a psychophysicist and…

Career advice: Why you need to create your own ‘Advisory Board’

“In these times, external advice is often critical and can help create a lot of sustainable value,” says David Glover, a professional director and owner of consultancy Creative Strategies By Divina Paredes Often, a small business might have a formal board of directors or an advisory board whose members may or may not be paid…

Don’t dismiss your critics. Invite them to your ‘Challenge Network’

“We need a ‘Challenge Network’…thoughtful critics who point out our blind spots, and help us see what we need to rethink,” says Adam Grant, organisational psychologist and author of Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know “Listen to ideas that make you think hard, not just the ones that make you feel…

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