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With longer working lives comes the need to update the language we have been using. We need to introduce concepts that reflect how capability evolves across a lifetime, not just early in a career. Crystallised intelligence is what accumulates. It is
Some of the most interesting chapters begin when we stop letting other people’s expectations define what we can become. Dolly Parton’s words are a powerful reminder that a career doesn’t have to stay within the boundaries of what o
One of the hardest parts of a long career is learning not to judge every season by visible progress. A pause between roles. A period of uncertainty. Time spent caregiving, studying, recovering, exploring, or simply questioning what comes next can fee
For generations, people followed a straight trajectory: study, work, retire. But longer lives are revealing a different reality. At What’s Next, we developed the Perennial Career Framework® as a new way of understanding careers: not as a