The Focus on Age Discrimination - Could that Be Distracting from Actual "Decline?"

 "President Biden is a great guy, and I‘m a great guy, too. I don‘t have any business running campaigns anymore!" - James Carville, on Fox, July 2, 2024 

In his time, as the saying goes, genius political strategist Carville created the direction and the slogan for a winning Bill Clinton campaign: It's the economy, stupid.

But there he was on Fox conceding that with aging that kind of work goes off his menu of skills. No longer can he orchestrate a whole major campaign.

That's the takeaway those in Joe Biden's inner circle should pay attention to. Aging does impose certain realities. Biden is 81. Carville is 79. Even before my current age - late 70s - I phased out being an influencer. Once so much fun it didn't feel like work, it came to feel like too much work. What a chore to keep coming up with provocative new ideas to hold on and hopefully grow my followers. 

Meanwhile, the youngest of the hard-charging boomers could be facing a reckoning of when to take the foot off the peddle. 

At law firm Jones Day powerhouse Stephen Brogan was firmly in charge when he stepped down at 70. According to the ABA Journal, the typical age now for heads of law firms to retire from that role is 66. Although that's older than it was 2006 to 2022 - 63.9 - it is still relatively young. 

At Jones Day Laura Ellsworth, partner in charge of global community services, is 65. At law firm Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp is 64. What realities associated with aging might unfold? At age 62, Joe Andrew stepped down from global chair at Dentons to become a partner at that law firm.

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