View retirement as well deserved dessert

NAIROBI: At a recent high performance leadership workshop I was conducting, I invited a guest speaker who has had a very illustrious career in the corporate world. Having served as the chief executive of regional giants, he chose to retire at the age of 53 to pursue his other interests. It is this point of opting to retire while at the peak that I wish us to talk about.

In an ideal world, retirement should be like dessert, a well-deserved treat following a lifetime of hard work. However, an increased average life expectancy and the unenviable example of some retirees has many workers feeling financially and even perhaps emotionally unprepared.