Whether you re a twenty-something executive coming up for breath or a CEO at the top of your game, whether you re considering retirement or a career break, To Plant A Walnut Tree is a personal invitation to reshape your life and find a pathway to share wisdom in a practical way.
It is a rallying call to use your experience from day one, and to plant the seed for a fruitful legacy. It s about finding the practical answer to the What s Next? or Is this it? questions, in order to climb an even higher tree.
In To Plant a Walnut Tree Trevor Waldock issues a personal invitation to reshape your life and find a pathway to share wisdom in a practical way something he calls eldership. Elders provide perspective, and they hold leaders to account. Their wisdom may be needed to solve a problem, understand a dilemma, resolve a conflict or map a pathway through complex and unfamiliar territory. Privileged with the gift of experience, they can see the broader perspective, from climbing the even higher tree and taking the longer-term view. They make way for, and they guide, generations to come.
We can all aspire to be elders. The discovery that one s life can be a journey that makes sense, not just for oneself in the short term, but also for others in the future can be life changing. It is not limited to gender or culture or education. It creates hope across the whole life span and brings about meaning to the everyday.
Eldership may be the key to examining many of the challenges society faces at all levels it speaks to leaders in all aspects of life, be they in business, education, or local and national politics. It bridges cultures and it encourages the sharing of wisdom and experience across them.
