Your Retirement's Been Cancelled
Revenge on the nerds.
One of the few benefits of age is the ability to see a “cycle” play out from start to finish.
Every age has its shiny object, accompanied by the conviction that this time is different. Disruption? Yeah, that’s us. Competition? No problem. Adoption? Don’t be negative. Gravity? Doesn’t apply. Capital call? What?
If you’ve been around, you learned your lesson like most of us. You bet, you were wrong, and you lost. And you never forgot that feeling.
There is great stuff happening and terrific capabilities waiting to play in financial services. We have been waiting for this moment.
In this month's newsletter, we zero in on the WHY we need to see in Word of the Year.
Then gear up your leadership for the environmental reality and Battling Goblin Mode.
Finally, let's be practical about the WHAT. We have a responsibility inside an opportunity. Your Retirement’s Been Cancelled.
Out with the Old Bull, in with a New Bull.
Bull markets are like rivers, the saying goes. Most begin small, quiet trickles that build to a stream long before bursting open with impressive size and power. Go with the flow, we also say. I am no market sage, but I’m seeing one bull running out of steam while another river is building. And I’m on mission to ride that wave.
Word of the Year
The Oxford Dictionary team selected their word – actually words – as “goblin mode” – referring to the pandemic spawn of people “indulging their laziest and most selfish habits”. At Next Chapter, we’re going with “protection”.
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Your Retirement's Been Cancelled But There's a Bus Leaving Tomorrow
The spectacular reputational suicide of Southwest Airlines is a very public example of what happens when you promise and don’t deliver – and a warning to the retirement advice industry, equally unprepared to ensure the safe retirement “arrival” of our best clients.
Next Chapter is LIVE in New York
Brooklyn to be exact. February 21, 2023.
Our focus: How to rescue retirement from the eve of destruction.
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