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Bill Byham is a best-selling author, speaker, and industry expert on management issues, including empowerment, succession, retention, and hiring. He wrote Zapp!® The Lightning of Empowerment, which has sold more than 4.5 million copies, and coauthored Grow Your Own Leaders, a guide to identifying and developing future organizational leaders. In Grow Your Own Leaders, Dr. Byham recommended that organizations attempt to keep key retirees long enough to develop and prepare their backups. In 70: The New 50, he provides a strategy for accomplishing that. Dr. Byham is the Chairman and CEO of Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global human resource consulting firm, which he cofounded in 1970 and which has grown to include 75 offices in 26 countries. 70: The New 50 is about retirement management--an answer to the challenge of the impending baby boomer exodus in the workplace.Byham, William C. is the author of '70', published 2007 under ISBN 9780976151432 and ISBN 097615143X.