retirement

2009 Encore Opportunity Award Winners...Retirement, Redefined

There are four major work+life fit transitions that spark a fundamental rethinking of the way work fits into the rest of life: parenthood, illness, elder care, and retirement.  Historically, our response to each of these reset ...READ»

Recession and Work+Life Reality: Survey Finds Flex Unchanged, Careers Changed and Willingness to Sacrifice to Keep Job

(Note: please forgive the funky font issues in the post--can't figure out what's going on) Last week, the state and regional unemployment figures increased again, and CEOs at the nation’s largest companies predicted more ...READ»

Jobs Tries on Retirement for Apple's Good

Apple [AAPL] CEO Steve Jobs sent a letter to employees today declaring his intention to take a leave of absence from the company until June. Shares of AAPL dropped about 6% in after-hours trading, as of this writing. Since blaming a ...READ»

Fancy a Space Shuttle? NASA's Giving Some Away

The end of an era is rapidly approaching: Soon the skies will shake no more to Space Shuttle stacks rocketing into orbit, and the world's first real space ship will go gently into retirement. It's so soon, in fact, that NASA's beginning to plan ...READ»

Civic Ventures: Silicon Valley Encore Initiative

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• Mercy Corps: The Bank of Banks
• The Academy for Urban School Leadership: A Teacher-Training Residency
• DataDyne: EpiSurveyor
• The Institute for OneWorld Health: Not-for-profit Drugmaking
• The Acumen Fund: Portfolio Data Management System
• Husk Power Systems: Rice-Fired Electricity
• Hopelab: Video Games for Health

Economic Crisis Transforming the "All or Nothing" Work+Life Mindset

Listen to Cali on Wed 11/19 at 4:00 pm ET talk with Maggie Mistal about Work+Life Fit in a Recession on Sirius Radio's Martha Stewart Network!  "Making a Living with Maggie" inspires, educates and entertains listeners so that they ...READ»

Retirement by the Numbers

I don’t care if you’re 25 or 55 – putting money away for your retirement years is a necessity. I have compiled some figures from a Fidelity study released yesterday that I got from an article in the Boston Globe. A ...READ»