The 100-Year Life: Rethinking Careers for a Longer Working Life

If you knew you might live to 100, how differently would you think about the career you are building today?

Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, where she's taught for more than thirty years and leads the world's number one ranked programme in human resources. Lynda is also the bestselling co-author of the million selling The 100-Year Life.

Ahead of the publication of her new book, Living the 100-Year Life: How to build a career that lasts and a life you love, Lynda joins David to explore why longer lives are stretching the traditional education, work and retirement model to breaking point, and what this means for individuals and organisations.

In this episode, David and Lynda discuss:

• The eight threads Lynda believes can help us build resilient and fulfilling working lives, and why calm is becoming increasingly important
• Why “amplification”, our relationship with technology and AI, is one of the eight threads we need to manage deliberately
• How AI is reshaping work at the level of tasks, and what that means for the careers we build
• Why career architectures, mobility and development models designed for shorter, more predictable working lives need to evolve
• How organisations can help people navigate repeated transitions across careers that could span 50 or 60 years

Ultimately, this is a conversation about longevity, technology and human agency, and how individuals and organisations can make the extra years we have been given count.

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Living the 100-year old Life: How to build a career that lasts and a life you love

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