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According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

Success in today's economy is what work for the individual and the company 

I am a retiree working on a volunteer basis with foundations like SCORE and Micro Mentor in support of many small enterprises in the evolution of business plans, many on complex government contracting programs with dictated benefit requirements. 

The management challenge, regardless of ethics, laws against discrimination and similar ethically related factors, is to balance the resource mix for success in the company. 

It is an astute company that allows for the experienced worker by comparing the value that resource represents to more inexperienced help, marketing factors or other intrinsic contributions. The weighing factor of course is cost - salary, benefits and tenure expectations. 

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

If the above equation yields a positive answer the senior resource will be pursued. If not the company will attempt to find a way to manage with a lower cost, less efficient resource until it can afford the more expensive one. 

The astute senior will take his talent to where the market can pay for it. The astute company will hire the senior when the resource/cost equation fits. 

As an aside, I am amazed at the number of older workers who are beginning their own enterprises so they can have some control of the situation.

Cont.d

Kenneth LarsonRetired Aerospace Contracts Manager

Youth is the currency you spend to get experience. Your job is to getthe most for your money.

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

Lance ThompsonWriter and Script Doctor at Bagpipe Luau

Adaptability at any age.

David VelasquezStaff Manufacturing Tech. with BioNano Genomics Inc.

Experience.Wallace Jackson 2nd

Multimedia Producer

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

With age come experience, but it doesn't mean that you will learn from that experience and use the learning to become a successful individual in your personal and/or professional life. Also, age doesn't guarantee that you will gain the right experience to achieve success! 

According to me: First you need to understand and identify how to measure the success trying to be achieved; Then identify the personal key attributes that are required to achieve this success including skills, experience and qualifications; Then find a suitable person/team that matches the key attributes who can deliver and achieve the success you are aiming for. I personally would never consider age as a factor!!!!

Dawn PowellHR Consultant at Right Hand HR

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

Neither age or experience are true indicators of success to me. As others have mentioned, it is more about what has been achieved and accomplished during that time, how many people have been helped, how many personal goals have been met, how many challenges have been overcome. 

I'm not a big fan of judging other people's success. Everyone is successful in some way and if we only use the standard measures, we might not see the truly great things the person has achieved, regardless of their age or experience.

Judy Hojel *Exp. CEO & Speaker 

Clearly, age nor experience has much to do with it on an extrinsic level (some achieve wealth in their youth) nor instrinsic level (many people never find true fulfillment and live long lives). If it were age or experience then all people that are reach a certain level of age and experience would be the most successful... The reason for the success of some young and some old ... some with experience and others without as much experience) is that success comes from thinking in a certain way. Those that learn to think smarter will work smarter and find both intrinsic and extrinsic success... they think smarter by having clarity of vision, a specific purpose, a passion for what they do in service of others and strong core values. Check-out Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill to begin with...

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

Crystal Davis 2nd

Visionary Mentor, Coach, & Speaker 

I believe everyone has a different barometer (a tool for measuring) when it comes to success. Some are in pursuit of money, others measure according to key relationship success, and still others measure by the amount of education. 

All these things can come at an early age so it eliminates that criteria. Experience doesn't always teach success...sometimes it's the same ol fool on the receiving end of experience. 

First, one has to define what success looks like and then go after it with all his might. One has to also prepare his heart to receive the success he's asked for.

According to you, what is the barometer of success - age or experience?

Michelle HillFitness content writer for current/retired pro athletes

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