Working Identity
Harvard Business Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-57851-778-7 (ISBN)
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This title shows how successful career changers turn fantasy into reality. Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in our current profession.In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts". While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become.
Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.Through engrossing stories - from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist - Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: explore possible selves; craft and execute 'identity experiments'; create 'small wins' that keep momentum going; survive the rocky period between career identities; connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition; make time for reflection - without missing out on windows of opportunity; decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new; and arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming. A call to the dreamer in each of us, "Working Identity" explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future.
Where we end up may surprise us. Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School and Visiting Professor of Business Administration at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Preface: Changing Career, Changing Selves Chapter 1: Reinvention Stories Christian and Lucy. Different paths, Common plot. Doing instead of thinking. A matter of identities. Overview of the book. Chapter 2: Models for Changing Gary. "What to" Models: True, packaged, and possible selves "How to" models: Plan and implement, Craft and learn. From image to reality Chapter 3: Between Selves Sarah. In the middle. Identities on trial. A space for play. Self-selection. Transition and transformation. Chapter 4: Creating Experiments Julian. The Experimental Method. Exploration and Confirmation. Varieties of Experiments. Design and Evaluation. Committed Flirtation Chapter 5: Shifting Connections Harris. The ties that bind (and blind). Becoming an ex. Transitional figures. Communities of practice. A frontier safe base. Chapter 6: Making Sense John. Defining moments. Unfreezing events. Crystallizing events. Stepping back. Re-telling our selves. Chapter 7: Updating Identities Susan. Learning loops. Early loops: Reconfiguring possibilities. Later loops: Changing the deep structure. Chapter 8: About Time Julio. Taking time. Sabbatical. Moratorium. Windows of opportunity. Pacing yourself. Chapter 9: Becoming Yourself Rules for Reinvention. Varieties of transformation. Reinvention without leaving. Appendix 1: About the study
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.12.2002 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 518 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57851-778-8 / 1578517788 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57851-778-7 / 9781578517787 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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