Living and Working in the Age of Longevity

I'm Adi Ignatius. I'm Alison Beard and this is the HBR Idea Cast. So Allison, as you know, my father passed away recently at the age of 104. He stayed sharp pretty much up to the end, and that is relevant to our conversation today. Yes, I was so sorry about his passing. He was such an amazing man, not only a father to you and several highly accomplished siblings. The secretary of the Navy in the nineteen sixties, and then a successful businessman. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. But my point in mentioning that is that a lifespan like his is becoming less and less rare. We're living longer, we're living healthy, there are many more centenarians, and that has profound implications for work and for our careers.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I personally want to work until I'm a hundred, but I do think that old notions about retiring at the age of 60 or 65. don't really make sense anymore. Many of us can be very productive and lead valuable work lives for much longer. Yeah, exactly. And I I think management has to adapt to this. I mean individuals do too. And our guest today, Linda Grattan, has excellent advice on how people should think about their career options over A relatively long time span.

Gratten is a professor of management practice at London Business School and is author of the new book, Living the Hundred Year Life. Which builds on her earlier book co-written with Andrew Scott called The Hundred Your Life. She has a lot to share about how we can plan our careers differently in light of our longevity and what organizations need to do to keep up. Here's our conversation. You know, for our audience, I want to talk mostly about the implications of this one work and career.

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