Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Business Diseases of the Industrial Age

Great Toys. Bad Karma.


The Industrial Age lasted a very short 150-200-ish years in the ten thousand years of recorded human history. It brought us a lot of cool toys and a cushy life, but we’ve been afflicted with a lot of Business Diseases that came from the Industrial Age. Here’s just a few of them:

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The Industrial Age is Dead - Time is the New Money

Going to work is a bad idea.


As a business owner, you’re likely carrying a lot of baggage from the Industrial age (1800-ish to 1965-ish) that won’t fully go away for decades to come. He who makes the rules wins. You need to stop running your business on Industrial Age rules.

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Bismarck had it all wrong - Retirement blows chunks.

Shut up. Sit down. LIve invisibly. Go out quietly.


I’m working on my third book “Retirement is a Bankrupt Industrial Age Idea” and the research confirms everything I’m seeing in the world around us – the title of my book reflects reality. We’ve got to rethink the whole idea.

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Retirement is a Bankrupt Industrial Age Idea


Retirement is a really bad, bankrupt, industrial age idea that was never a good idea in the first place. It was invented by big businesses to steal the best 40 years of our lives so they could discard us when our good years were all behind us.



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