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The Portfolio Bubble
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The Portfolio Bubble

Surviving Professionally at 60

J. Michael Willard
Vidalia House Publishing, 2005

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Recommendation

Just about everything that J. Michael Willard has to say is useful, even insightful - but basic. As Willard himself notes, it is simply common sense that you’ll deal better with the transitions of aging and the unequal treatment that almost always accompanies them if you prepare for these changes. What differentiates the best of Willard’s advice from mere common sense, though, is the specifics. He immediately cuts through most people’s great self-deception regarding aging: that it won’t happen to them. However, most of the book falls into three categories: reviewing facts that aging readers may already know; making suggestions they’ve probably heard before (present yourself professionally, stay fit, etc.); and telling stories about people who successfully made the professional changes that aging demands. Since Willard tells a good story, the book is always entertaining, but ultimately short on substance. getAbstract.com recommends it to those who are nearing what Willard calls the "red zone" (age 60 and older), as well as to those who want to plan their professional lives, but haven’t done much thinking about it yet.

Take-Aways

  • Everyone ages, so everyone must prepare for getting older.
  • Life comes in stages, and to adapt to each new stage you must be able to change.
  • You reach the "portfolio bubble" stage in your late 50s, when your career has expanded, but not yet burst.

About the Author

J. Michael Willard has been a journalist, an adviser to a U.S. senator and an entrepreneur in the former Soviet Union. The author of several books, he was a founder of The Willard Group, a leading public relations firm in Eastern Europe.

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