All Blog Posts Tagged 'boomers' (7)

Center For Productive Longevity Wraps Up Successful Series of Baby Boomer Entrepreneurship Meetings

The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL), which serves as the bridge between people 55 and older and opportunities that enable them to continue in productive activities, recently wrapped up its last meeting in the Spotlight on Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Baby Boomers series. These meetings attracted more than 400 participants 50 and older to the four meetings in Kansas City, Mo., Boston, Chicago and…

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Added by Rebecca H on November 26, 2012 at 12:48pm — No Comments

The Disconnects and Dilemmas Confronting an Aging Population

The stereotypes abound: that Americans 55 and older are over the hill, on the shelf, and their headlights are getting dim. When the Social Security Act of 1935 established the retirement age of 65, average longevity was 62. In 2012, 77 years later, despite the reality that longevity for men is 78 and 80 for women, a pervasive negative sentiment remains about older workers and aging in…

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Added by Rebecca H on August 14, 2012 at 2:28pm — No Comments

Seven Reasons Why Baby Boomers Continue Working

The anomaly is that people in America are living 30 years longer than people in the 20th century but only working two years longer.  In 2000, the average retirement age was 62, and the average retirement age in 2010 was 64.  Many of the…

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Added by Crystal T on June 22, 2012 at 4:05pm — No Comments

Center for Productive Longevity Working to Defuse the Ticking Time Bomb

The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL), which serves as the bridge between people 55 and older and the opportunities that enable them to continue in productive activities, today described “The 3 Important Ways to Defuse the Ticking Time Bomb of our Aging Workforce. With 77 million people in the United States 55 and older, we are at a tipping point: we can either watch them sit on…

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Added by Crystal T on May 10, 2012 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Spotlight on Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Baby Boomers

 

All readers may be familiar with ESP–extrasensory perception.  I propose that we focus on EESP–experience, expertise, seasoned judgment and proven performance. This is what Baby Boomers can provide versus their younger counterparts. I like the old saying: “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

 

Quoting from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity for 1996-2010, written by Robert W. Fairlie in March 2011: 26% of…

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Added by Crystal T on May 7, 2012 at 1:11pm — No Comments

Spotlight on Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Baby Boomers

By: William K Zinke

Founder & President of the Center for Productive Longevity

 

All readers may be familiar with ESP–extrasensory perception.  I propose that we focus on EESP–experience, expertise, seasoned judgment and proven performance. This is what Baby Boomers can provide versus their younger counterparts. I like the old saying: “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

 

Quoting from the Kauffman Index of…

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Added by Crystal T on May 7, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Baby Boomers Are Fastest Growing Segment in Entrepreneurial Wave

The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL), which serves as the bridge between people 55 and older and the opportunities that enable them to continue in productive activities, today announced the results of the first in a series of four meetings, Spotlight on Entrepreneurship Opportunities for Baby Boomers.” During a time of high unemployment and low economic growth, CPL initiated…

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Added by Crystal T on April 26, 2012 at 2:40pm — No Comments

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