We all have transitions, or changes, in life whether we make them ourselves or they’re made for us. Aviah Wittenberg-Cox, author of Seven Steps to Leading a Gender-Balanced Business, says mapping out transitions on a timeline from zero to 100 years will give you an idea of how many transitions you’ll experience.
Source: Harvard Business Review, July 5, 2018. Link.
Longevity means that, more than ever, we need to plan for change. Using the gift of decades requires acknowledging their existence and deciding what you want to do with them. People say you can’t have it all, but the gift of time gives us new options to have a lot more than we ever thought possible.
INSIGHTS: As the author notes, it is important to have outside feedback on our transition ideas and plans. Not only is it a reality check, but it is a good tool that will open up better ideas than we can conjure on our own.