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Working Identity
Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, Updated Edition
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Strategies that successful career changers use - and how to make them work for you.
Nearly all of us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work, unfulfilled, or just plain unhappy with whatever we're doing, we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and different career path. But how do we make this transition successfully?
In this update of the groundbreaking classic, bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from career experts - and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of 'possible selves' we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analysing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.
Using new examples of people in different stages of a career transition, Ibarra identifies the three critical strategies - experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities - that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these strategies to:
- Explore your possible selves
- Craft and execute 'identity experiments'
- Create 'small wins' that keep momentum going
- Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
- Arrange new learnings into a coherent story
Now with action-oriented exercises to help you work successfully through your own career transition, this updated edition gives you the tools to discover a new path and find success in your new career.
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Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra has garnered acclaim for its insightful perspective on career transitions. Reviewers praise its combination of narrative and research that challenges conventional wisdom on job changes. It's described as sophisticated, timely, and essential for those navigating career shifts, with emphasis on its relevancy in today’s unpredictable job market.
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ISBN: 9781647825560
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 17 October 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Edition: Revised edition
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Herminia Ibarra is an authority on leadership and career transitions. She is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School and is ranked among the top management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and a fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of the bestselling book, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, and she writes regularly in leading publications, including Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Connect with Herminia Ibarra on Twitter and at herminiaibarra.com, Thinkers50, and TED.
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