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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

Autor Marc Freedman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2012 – vârsta de la 9 ani
Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as "the voice of aging baby boomers seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are searching for answers to the question "What's next?" and are navigating their way to an entirely new stage of life and work, one that could last as long as midlife. Shifting to a much longer lifespan isn't as easy as it may seem. Unlike the transition from adolescence to adulthood, managing this process for many is a do-it-yourself project. Drawing on powerful personal stories, The Big Shift provides not only direction but a vision of what it would take to help millions find their footing in a new map of life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781610390996
ISBN-10: 1610390997
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 219 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs

Recenzii

The New York Times,April 30, 2011

Calls The Big Shift “an imaginative work with the potential to affect our individual lives and our collective future.”

The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2011

Says its an “invaluable and inspiring read.”
USAToday, April 25, 2011

Hails Freedman as “a natural storyteller, a deep researcher and a forward thinker.”


New YorkJournal of Books,June 2011
“thorough, thoughtful, and exceptionally well written….Page Oneis a most encompassing volume on the issue of the future of journalism and newspapers…Highly recommended."


Notă biografică

Marc Freedman is CEO and president of Encore.org, an organization he founded in 1998. Freedman is a member of the Wall Street Journal's "Experts" group, a frequent commentator in the national media, and the author of four previous books.

Originator of the encore career idea linking second acts to the greater good, Freedman cofounded Experience Corps to mobilize people over fifty to improve the school performance and prospects of low-income elementary school students in twenty-two US cities. He also spearheaded the creation of the Encore Fellowships program, a one-year fellowship helping individuals translate their midlife skills into second acts focused on social impact, and the Purpose Prize, an annual $100,000 prize for social entrepreneurs in the second half of life. (AARP now runs both Experience Corps and the Purpose Prize.)

Freedman was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation, was recognized as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs by Fast Company magazine three years in a row, and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and King's College, University of London. Freedman serves or has served on the boards and advisory councils of numerous groups, including the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, and the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program.

A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College, with an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Freedman lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Leslie Gray, and their three sons.

Descriere

"An invaluable and inspiring read"* offering a new perspective to people entering their 50s, 60s, and 70s asking the question: What's next? (*Wall Street Journal)