266: How to Lead a 100-Year Life, with Lynda Gratton
Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She has been ranked in the top 15 on The Thinkers50 list of the world’s top 50 business thinkers. She’s the author with Andrew Scott of The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity*.
Key Points- Many more of us, and potentially a majority of our children, will live to be 100 or more
- Organizations (and society) still tend to frame our lives in three stages: education, work, retirement
- Transitions now happen more often for us and are less likely to be in lock-step with our peers
- The problem with transition: the people who know you best don’t want you to change
- Navigating more transitions in life means that we need to have networks with people who are not like us
- Truth is essential in leadership
- The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity* by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
- The 100-Year Life website
- The Surprising Truth About Influencing Others, with Daniel Pink (episode 84)
- The Way to Make New Behaviors Stick, with Marshall Goldsmith (episode 196)
- How Superbosses Master the Flow of Talent, with Sydney Finkelstein (episode 236)
- How to Be a Non-Conformist, with Adam Grant (episode 238)
- How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
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Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. She has been ranked in the top 15 on The Thinkers50 list of the world’s top 50 business thinkers. She’s the author with Andrew Scott of The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity*.
Key Points- Many more of us, and potentially a majority of our children, will live to be 100 or more
- Organizations (and society) still tend to frame our lives in three stages: education, work, retirement
- Transitions now happen more often for us and are less likely to be in lock-step with our peers
- The problem with transition: the people who know you best don’t want you to change
- Navigating more transitions in life means that we need to have networks with people who are not like us
- Truth is essential in leadership
- The 100-Year Life: Living and working in an age of longevity* by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
- The 100-Year Life website
- The Surprising Truth About Influencing Others, with Daniel Pink (episode 84)
- The Way to Make New Behaviors Stick, with Marshall Goldsmith (episode 196)
- How Superbosses Master the Flow of Talent, with Sydney Finkelstein (episode 236)
- How to Be a Non-Conformist, with Adam Grant (episode 238)
- How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
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