I used to think life had a sequence.

You go to college. You earn your degree. If you’re ambitious—or perhaps just incapable of leaving well enough alone—you go back for graduate school. Then you build your career. You work hard, gain experience, move up, and spend the next few decades applying ever...

Over the past year, I’ve noticed something interesting on LinkedIn.

People are retiring after decades in corporate leadership. Others are leaving long established careers to launch consulting businesses, coaching practices, investment ventures, online courses, or entirely new pursuits that might ha...