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June 22, 2005

Richard Leider and the big picture stuff

Lovely to share a stage again with Richard Leider last week at the Conference Board event. His message about living with meaning from your uniqueness bears hearing regularly. Interesting stuff from my notes:

- Elders, when asked how they would live their life differently if they could do it again, consistently said:

1. They'd be more reflective
2. They'd be more courageous, living more authentically
3. They'd work harder to understand their own personal bottom line (purpose)

- Two-thirds of the people in history who have lived over the age of 65 are alive today.

- $1700 of what we pay for every GM car goes to fund the retirement of 400,000 current GM pensioners, 300 of whom are over 100 years old.

- Isolation is the new poverty.

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Richard and I are the same age, and hopefully we'll cross paths some more. Nice to see that his Inventure Group has done so well with such a valuable but potentially "squishy" topic for the buttoned-down boys.

Posted by David at June 22, 2005 01:17 AM