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Jan 2019
26 m

How Retirement Changes Your Identity

Harvard Business Review
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Teresa Amabile, professor at Harvard Business School, is approaching her own retirement by researching how ending your work career affects your sense of self. She says important psychological shifts take place leading up to, and during, retirement. That holds especially true for workers who identify strongly with their job and organization. Amabile and her f ... Show More
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