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A Groundhog Career

A tale of career traps and how to escape them
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2025
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-709-4 (ISBN)
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Don’t let the professional world take you as its next unwitting captive; instead, discover how you can take control of your career and in the process find true meaning and lasting fulfillment.
We all ‘play the game’ at work. As we begin our journey in the professional world, we’re encouraged to compete, to participate in a system of promotions, pay raises, bonuses… but how far should we take this game? And, perhaps more importantly, where will this game take us if we limit ourselves to thinking this way?

In attempting to master and gain an advantage in the ‘system’, we use short cuts, blips, hacks, or ‘cheats.’ Particularly in the early phases of professional life, it can be irresistibly tempting to focus on whatever tactics help us progress.

But this comes at a cost.

The longer we pursue this approach, the further we navigate away from meaning and purpose. The hacks and cheats start to define us. The professional persona or façade we assume becomes a parasite, feeding on our integrity and eroding our individuality.

A Groundhog Career, through a combination of the hugely entertaining Shey Sinope fable, and the accompanying deeply insightful and thought provoking analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises faced by anyone who wants to succeed in a world where all the power seems to be in the entrenched organizational systems. It also reveals how to be more aware of the risks, to stay aligned with your core identity and your convictions, and ultimately how to take control of your own career journey… to live professional life on your own terms.

Schuster and Oxley are long time collaborators and former work colleagues. It is their shared outlook that has bound them together as authors. They are optimistic futurists, advocates for next generation talent, pioneers of new approaches to work, enthusiasts for new technology adoption, and crusaders against entrenched thinking. Their first book - A Career Carol - was Highly Commended in the Business Book Awards 2024.

INTRODUCTION Part I – A GROUNDHOG CAREER



There was a Storm Brewing
Into the Breach
Into the Breach Once More
Whether to Suffer the Breaches of Outrageous Fortune
A Breach is What You Make it
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Part II – LIVING PROFESSIONAL LIFE ON YOUR OWN TERMS



A Groundhog Career - Introduction to Part II
Don't Become a Captive of the Career Game
Pursue Your Career Not Someone Elses.
Reframing Leadership – from Control to Shared Purpose
And Finally…A Defense of Formulas

Authors’ notes

Acknowledgements

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.3.2025
Zusatzinfo Line drawings
Verlagsort Tadley
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Bewerbung / Karriere
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufspädagogik
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10 1-78860-709-0 / 1788607090
ISBN-13 978-1-78860-709-4 / 9781788607094
Zustand Neuware
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