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Plan a Satisfying Retirement

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, the things you looked forward to all those years — mornings on the golf course, afternoons puttering in the garden, trips to exotic places — don’t feel like they’ll be enough to sustain you. That’s a long time,” says Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org and the author of The Big Shift. Be willing to experiment.

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Leadership That Longfellow Would Appreciate

Harvard Business Review

Longfellow's message is especially pertinent today, of course, with life expectancies soaring and seniors predicted to make up 20 percent of the population by 2050. Marc Freedman, chair of the Civic Ventures think tank , calls it "one of the most significant social trends of the new century."