Working Identity
Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, Updated Edition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Harvard Business Review Press
Published:17th Oct '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This insightful guide explores effective strategies for successful career transitions, emphasizing experimentation with new identities, networking, and creating small wins, ultimately helping individuals navigate their journey towards fulfilling new careers.
Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra offers a fresh perspective on career transitions, challenging traditional notions of how to navigate such changes. Many individuals contemplate a career shift due to feelings of burnout or dissatisfaction in their current roles. Ibarra emphasizes that successful reinvention is not a straightforward journey toward a fixed identity but rather a dynamic process of exploring various possible selves. This approach encourages individuals to focus on inventing and testing new futures rather than solely analyzing their past experiences.
In this updated edition, Ibarra outlines three essential strategies that successful career changers employ: experimenting with new professional activities, engaging with diverse networks, and interpreting experiences through the lens of emerging opportunities. By adopting these strategies, readers can explore their potential identities, conduct identity experiments, and create small wins that help maintain momentum during their transition. Additionally, connecting with mentors and role models can provide valuable support and guidance throughout the process.
The book also includes practical exercises designed to assist readers in navigating their own career transitions. These tools aim to empower individuals to discover new paths and achieve success in their chosen careers. With its actionable insights and relatable examples, Working Identity serves as a valuable resource for anyone considering a significant change in their professional life, helping them to embrace the uncertainties of career reinvention with confidence.
Advance Praise for Working Identity:
"I don't have to predict that this book will become a classic. It already has. Well ahead of its time when first published, Working Identity now finds its sweet spot of ultrarelevance in our tumultuous era of career searching and pivoting." — Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School; author, Right Kind of Wrong
"With a deft combination of story and science, Ibarra both debunks a portion of popular wisdom and demystifies the process of work transition. I've probably recommended this book more frequently than any other, including my own." — David Epstein, author, #1 New York Times bestseller Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and bestseller The Sports Gene
"There has never been a better time to understand career transitions—and there has never been a better author to help us navigate these transitions." — Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School; author, Redesigning Work; and coauthor, The 100-Year Life
"Herminia Ibarra's groundbreaking Working Identity continues to defy and disrupt conventional wisdom around career change. Even more relevant than it was two decades ago, this book is a gem for anyone who wants something more. Simply brilliant." — Whitney Johnson, CEO, Disruption Advisors; Thinkers50 Top 10 Management Thinker; and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
"Herminia Ibarra flips our way of thinking. What we do shifts what we say to ourselves, which shifts our mindsets, which shifts our identity, which then expands what we can do. It's an upward spiral. This book is a new paradigm and pure genius." — Carol Kauffman, coauthor, Real-Time Leadership
"Whether you're looking to switch industries, start your own business, or find a more fulfilling role within your current organization, this is the book you need to start your change today." — Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author, The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There
"Sophisticated and savvy, Herminia Ibarra's timeless book 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." — Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author, The Power of Regret
ISBN: 9781647825560
Dimensions: unknown
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224 pages
Revised edition