Expired?: The Science of Staying Indispensable When Your Company Bets on Youth - Softcover

Palomino, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188508845

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You didn't lose your value the day you turned 50.

It starts quietly. A strategy meeting you weren't invited to. A project you could have run in your sleep, handed to someone who wasn't even hired yet when you got your first promotion. A manager fifteen years younger asking you to "walk them through your method," as if you were new.

Nobody says it out loud. Nobody has to.

This is not a survival guide for hanging on until retirement. That would be an insult. Expired? is an update manual for experienced professionals who are done being managed out quietly and ready to become a version of themselves that is much harder to ignore.

Ivan Palomino spent twenty years applying behavioral science inside real companies across the US, Europe, and the Gulf, watching organizations write off their most experienced people. Then it started happening to him. This book is what he found on the other side.

Inside, you'll learn:

• Why you became invisible, and why it has almost nothing to do with your age. It is organizational mechanics you can decode and reverse.


• What to do with the anger of being treated as a cost line after decades of delivering, so it becomes leverage instead of resignation.


• What actually happens in an adult brain after 50, and why "too old to learn" is a story, not a finding.


• How to learn faster than someone half your age, using the one advantage they do not have.


• The Vintage strategy: translating twenty years of experience into the language your company values today, instead of a story about yesterday.


• How to wake up a dormant network with a five-contacts-a-week protocol that does not make you sound desperate.


• Micro-habits built for an adult brain that has better things to do than beat itself up.

This book is for you if:

You are 45 or older with a serious career behind you. You have noticed the room getting quieter. You are not looking for affirmations, and you have no interest in competing with thirty-year-olds on their own turf. You want an honest diagnosis first, then a plan.

Every chapter ends with a Take Action section: precise questions and small, concrete moves. Not January resolutions.

Obsolescence isn't a birthday. It's a decision. Yours, or someone else's.

Originally published in French as Périmé?, now fully adapted for the American workplace: at-will employment, ADEA and EEOC realities, and US labor-market data.

Experience isn't expired. It's underused. Scroll up, get your copy, and start with Chapter 1.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798188508845
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg