During the early 90’s in my Retail industry work, I booked exhibits at consumer shows targeted to the “Seniors” market. This was well ahead of the Boomer demographic curve now in full swing. (People who attended those shows are mostly over the age of 75 today.) Those show exhibits were packed row by row with
A response to blog post May 17 (“Vermeer’s Case for Financial Literacy”) from one of my colleagues Marie Howes, Certified Financial Planner. The item mentioned was the recently released report by Statistics Canada’s about Canadians retiring in debt. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2011002/pdf/11428-eng.pdf Opining on my phrase “the Vermeer effect” based on the notion of dying in debt as
The October 2010 conference I mentioned in blog post May 31, was for the annual Retirement Planners Association of Canada http://www.rpac.ca The panel session I moderated, followed a presentation by one of the panelists – Dr. John Sloan, MD. On the basis of Dr.Sloan’s riveting presentation, one of the questions was “what is your vision
The squawk about the differences between “generations in the workplace” is running out of sound bytes. How we learn, how we do or don’t get technology – the more we make of this trivia the more stuck we get. Going back to age 19 in my first retail management job, I seem to recall there