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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Paperback)
by Herminia Ibarra
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Giving a realistic view of what it takes to carve out new careers, this is a book for our times, when the half-life of a career keeps getting shorter.
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Author: Herminia Ibarra
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; New Ed edition
Pub. in: January, 2004
ISBN: 1591394139
Pages: 224
Measurements: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01247
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-1591394136
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In a nutshell, this book has helped me immensely in developing possible career paths. The main premise of the book is that the answer to "What should I do with my life?" does not typically come in a flash of insight or by seeking to discover yourself first. Rather, it comes from trying different ideas or alternatives and then reflecting on the experiences.
I have been engaged in the exercise of finding the right career for the past three years. I have did all manners of self-tests, journals, coaching and personality tests to find the answer. This isn't to say that my efforts were wasted because I was able to gain clarity into what I liked and disliked. The problem is that I never took action because I was looking for an "aha!" moment of discovery that never came. By reading "Working Identity" I have discovered that it is normal not to have an "aha!" and that the real value is taking what I have done and put it into action in order to discover what I would like to do.
In addition to the approach described by the author, the book is a short read, is well researched(with the research methods included) and has numerous stories as examples. The writing does get somewhat dry and academic in parts, but that is more than offset by the approach, short length and the stories.
I highly recommend!
(From quoting Stacy E. Burrell, USA)
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Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
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From Publisher
A powerful model for career reinvention that reverses conventional wisdom.
Includes fascinating case studies of personal and professional reinventions -from literature professor to stockbroker, from psychiatrist to Buddhist monk, and from investment banker to fiction writer, among others.
Gives readers a new way to understand change in their lives. Career change is not a step-by-step linear process - it’s crooked and takes much longer than we think. Nor is change the result of one big event. Rather, many small steps add up to a successful change.
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-24 00:00>
Aimed at mid-career professionals who have invested much in careers that may no longer fully satisfy, Ibarra's book challenges the traditional belief that a meticulous assessment of one's skills and interests will automatically lead one to discover the right job. In reality, she argues, "doing comes first, knowing second." This is not to say that a marketing director should abruptly resign to become a modern dancer; instead, defining the arc of the future is a "never-ending process of putting ourselves through a set of knowable steps that creates and reveals our possible selves." Most people will navigate a career shift at some point in their lives, and in this smart, positive guide, organizational behavior professor Ibarra shares the stories of 23 people who did it successfully. It's no 10-point plan for figuring it all out, Ibarra says, but rather a well-reasoned guide to making the decision of whether or not to stay in a career or move on. Readers who study the stories and their accompanying analyses will take away some valuable lessons on changing their way of thinking and being, going out on a limb, and building in a much-needed "transition period" during a career shift.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
Booklist (MSL quote), USA
<2008-03-24 00:00>
Recent changes in the economy have left a large segment of the workforce at odds with their careers, with downsizing and disillusionment causing many to rethink their place in the corporate world or even consider abandoning a profession they no longer find fulfilling. Ibarra believes that, contrary to conventional thought, there is no "one perfect job" for each individual. We each experiment and find our way through trial and error, hopefully on the path of becoming who we really are. This book is designed to help those who are on that path but feel stuck because they feel they should be doing something completely different but don't know what it is yet. Rather than giving glib advice, Ibarra illustrates how to make radical transitions one day at a time through the examples of 23 people who have successfully made the plunge from just a career to a whole new lifestyle. This is about a transition to something more personal, more creative or spiritual, but always liberating. David Siegfried
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Daniel H. Pink, author of Free Agent Nation , USA
<2008-03-24 00:00>
Herminia Ibarra has written one of the year’s most important business books. Sophisticated and savvy, it challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how and why people change careers - and illuminates the experimentation, struggle, and joy that are essential to the process. For professionals contemplating a career change, Working Identity is essential reading. |
Ronald A. Heifetz, Cofounder, The Center for Public Leadership, USA
<2008-03-24 00:00>
Through countless stories that inspire because they come so close to our own, Ibarra provides a world-shifting breakthrough in how we can go about refining our lives and changing our careers. She has given us long-awaited, enormously practical, and deeply insightful wisdom about the improvisational nature of our selves and our professional development. |
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