The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives, (Hardcover)

<b>What if the most important chapter of your working life is the one that begins after fifty? The world's leading expert on career transitions, Herminia Ibarra, shows you how.</b> <p>For the first time in history, millions of people are entering midlife with decades of vitality, experience, and ambition still ahead of them. Yet the old career script--work hard, peak, retire--no longer fits. We are living longer, working longer, and facing a new challenge: how to reinvent ourselves when the path forward is unwritten. </p><p>In <i>The Bonus Years</i>, renowned leadership expert Herminia Ibarra reveals how to turn this longevity windfall into an opportunity for growth, purpose, and renewed impact. Drawing on decades of pioneering research, a landmark longitudinal study of professionals reinventing themselves after fifty, and compelling stories from around the world, she introduces the essential skill for thriving in a longer life: <b>transition mastery</b>. </p><p>Whether you are contemplating a career pivot, recovering from a setback, selling a business, pursuing a passion, or simply asking, <i>What's next?</i>, Ibarra offers a practical roadmap for navigating endings, uncertainty, and new beginnings. Along the way, she introduces four reinvention archetypes--Hunters, Explorers, Architects, and Boiling Frogs--and shows how to harness networks, experiment with new possibilities, overcome inertia, and build a future that reflects who you are becoming, not just who you have been. </p><p>Wise, research-driven, and deeply inspiring, <i>The Bonus Years</i> reframes career longevity not as a slow downward decline, but as a rare chance to do your most meaningful work, create a life of continued growth, and flourish in the years ahead.</p>

• The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives, (Hardcover)
• Author: Herminia Ibarra
• ISBN: 9781668087244
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-01-12
• Page Count: 288