The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

by Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott

Overview

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, The 100-Year Life explores how living to 100 will have a profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472947321
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at the London Business School where she teaches an elective on the Future of Work and directs an executive program on Human Resource Strategy. Lynda is a fellow of the World Economic Forum, is ranked by Business Thinkers in the top 15 in the world, and was named the best teacher at London Business School in 2015.

Andrew J. Scott is Professor of Economics at the London Business School and consulting scholar at Stanford University's Center on Longevity, having previously held positions at Harvard and Oxford. Through his multi-award-winning research, writing and teaching, his ideas inform a global understanding of the profound shifts reshaping our world and the actions needed for us to flourish individually and as a society. Board member and advisor to a range of corporates and governments, he is co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the advisory board of the Office for Budget Responsibility and the UK Cabinet Office Honours Committee. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2020 edition xiv

Introduction 1

1 Living: The gift of a long life 19

2 Financing: "Working for longer 33

3 Working: The employment landscape 57

4 Intangibles: Focusing on the priceless 85

5 Scenarios: Possible selves 127

6 Stages: New building blocks 167

7 Money: Financing a long life 201

8 Time: From recreation to re-creation 227

9 Relationships: The transformation of personal lives 247

Agenda for Change 281

Engaging with the 100-Year Life 319

Notes 321

Index 341

Editorial Reviews

Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying” —Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University

“A fascinating and thought-provoking book … a brilliant read for individuals, but should be mandatory reading for our politicians” —Shirley Cramer CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Society for Public Health

“This timely, important, easy-to-read and intriguing book will make you pause and think, as well as better plan your life … Gratton and Scott's book is a wake-up call for individuals, organizations, governments and societies” —Boris Groysberg, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

“The authors understand implicitly that not only is the world as we know it changing beyond all recognition, but the way we lead our lives too. This book could not be more timely or necessary” —Julia Hobsbawm, Founder and CEO, Editorial Intelligence Ltd, and Honorary Visiting professor in Networking, Cass Business School

“This playfully original book … makes a compelling case that as our lives become longer and healthier, the future might just be very, very different from what we have known until now” —Daron Acemoglu, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“[This] wonderful new book prepares us for the possibilities of this brave new world of longevity, and teaches us what it will take to thrive in it.” —Professor Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD

“Too many books bemoan the economic problems facing ageing societies. This splendid book is quite different … it should be read by anyone who wants to understand how life chances and choices will be transformed in a world where living beyond 100 will become the norm” —Lord Adair Turner, Senior research Fellow of the Institute for new Economic Thinking, and previously Chairman of the UK Pensions Commission

“To understand how and why things might change, there can be nowhere better to start than with the fascinating The 100-Year Life” —Baronness Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College, London

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