An overarching framework to life and work is required. Our concept of work, one s life work, is a metanoia. The only way we can survive in retirement today is to have some kind of overarching sense of what we are doing. In retirement we need some type of overarching mission that is larger than we are. We need to fit into this framework.
Retirement is redefined as leaving one job for another.
What that next job might be can be guided by our life work. Ideally, one s life work will take new and exciting forms in retirement. The second recommendation of Senge for organizational survival in changing times is the ability to create a future. Organizations must be able to create a future for themselves. They must be able to look into the future and create its own future.