The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the baby boomer generation will redefine the concept of retirement, transforming it into a new phase of work and life.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter's quote highlights how the baby boomer generation is poised to change societal norms surrounding retirement. Instead of viewing retirement as a period of rest and withdrawal from the workforce, they are likely to redefine it as an opportunity for continued growth and engagement in new career paths, reflecting a shift in how we perceive aging and productivity in our later years.
In practice
During a retirement planning seminar, one could use this quote to emphasize the potential for continued career development.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of βbusiness as usual.β That is WHY it is effective.
Our scientists grapple with the difficulties of placing a man on the moon, but the immediately troubling concern of our society is whether men of different races can sit together at a lunch counter.
Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
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