The Bonus Years: Reinventing Our Longer Work Lives
Jan 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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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.
Too young to retire, too vital to stand still, too experienced to start from scratch? Welcome to your Bonus Years.
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 traditional 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.
In The Bonus Years, 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: transition mastery.
Whether you are contemplating a career pivot, recovering from a setback, selling a business, pursuing a passion, or simply asking, What’s next?, 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.
Wise, research-driven, and deeply inspiring, The Bonus Years 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.
Too young to retire, too vital to stand still, too experienced to start from scratch? Welcome to your Bonus Years.
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 traditional 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.
In The Bonus Years, 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: transition mastery.
Whether you are contemplating a career pivot, recovering from a setback, selling a business, pursuing a passion, or simply asking, What’s next?, 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.
Wise, research-driven, and deeply inspiring, The Bonus Years 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.
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.
Too young to retire, too vital to stand still, too experienced to start from scratch? Welcome to your Bonus Years.
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Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School and one of the world’s foremost experts on career transitions, leadership, and professional identity. A Thinkers50 member and bestselling author of Working Identity and Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she advises organizations and leaders worldwide on navigating change and unlocking human potential.
Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School and one of the world’s foremost experts on career transitions, leadership, and professional identity. A Thinkers50 member and bestselling author of Working Identity and Act Like a Leader, Think Lik...
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