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The CEO’s Guide to Retirement - Harvard Business Review

Each year, over one hundred CEOs retire from the S&P 1000. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. On average, CEOs step down at age 62, relatively young by today’s standards. Few have to work for living. But almost all want to work, and they do. A look at the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviews with 13 of them, reveal that no one wants to retire to the golf course. Instead, these newly retired CEOs are acting as mentors, finding ways to give back, reconnecting with their partners, and pursuing long-held dreams. A structured approach to semi-retirement makes the transition smoother and more fruitful.

“I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO. Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. He had turned around private and public companies, quadrupled profits and quintupled revenue. But, with his company recently sold, Simon was considering retirement. Like many CEOs, he had had no time to plan his retirement — all his focus had been on running the company.

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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing letter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture - Business Insider

An ex-Google employee has published a highly critical letter attacking the firm's "eroded" culture and accusing CEO Sundar Pichai of lacking "visionary leadership."

Ian Hickson, who worked for Google for 18 of its 25 years, said he resigned from the company this month.

Posting on his blog, Hickson said he was "very lucky" to have experienced the early days of the company, where executives were candid with staff and ambitious experimentation was encouraged — but said the search giant's culture had since "deteriorated."

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Wasserman: Ohio State-Michigan, pure hatred and the apex of the greatest rivalry - The Athletic

Jim Harbaugh was asked at his news conference earlier this week if he respects Ryan Day and his staff. Harbaugh, as he often does when asked something that makes him uncomfortable, hesitated before dodging the question.

“It’s all about our preparation for Ohio,” Harbaugh said. “The days, the minutes, the hours, everything leading up to this game, that’s where our focus is. Preparing ourselves and planning, gonna practice and then execute. Anything else is irrelevant when you get to this kind of big game.”

Ryan Day was asked something similar a day later. He, too, wasn’t interested in giving an honest answer.

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There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America - The Atlantic

For Thanksgiving, I will be traveling home to western New York on Amtrak. I don’t think anything will go disastrously awry, though I don’t know. In 2019, during a snowstorm, an Amtrak train was stuck for some 36 hours in the mountains of Oregon because of a fallen tree. Earlier this year, on an Amtrak train from Northern Virginia to Sanford, Florida, passengers repeatedly called the police during the train’s 20-hour delay. “For those of you that are calling the police,” the conductor had to announce, “we are not holding you hostage.”

Of course, extreme train incidents are rare, and that’s why they make news. No form of transportation is infallible, and severe injury and fatal accidents are exponentially more common with car travel than with train travel. And any form of travel can be delayed by weather or by mechanical issues. The fact is that there is no good way to travel in America. Driving is dangerous, renting a car is a nightmare, and I don’t need to tell you about airplanes. Amtrak isn’t ideal, but it’s nonideal in a unique way. The trains don’t go to enough places; they don’t go often enough; they take too long; they can be more expensive than the faster alternatives. And then sometimes there’s something on the tracks.

Many Americans may be put off by the day-to-day reality of the country’s trains. Just 32 million people took Amtrak in 2019, and a tiny fraction of Thanksgiving travelers this year are expected to take the train. But many Americans still find the idea of train travel very romantic. New train routes generally receive popular support, and Amtrak’s shoot-for-the-moon 2035 plan, released in early 2021, caused national buzz about the future of passenger rail. TikTok travel influencers are thrilled by the views from the observation cars; young meme-makers talk about trains as if they were set down on the face of the Earth by God.

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