Sunday, May 30, 2004

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

Big ideas:
  • 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
  • Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming.
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591394139/qid=1086020845/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3188938-8156663?v=glance&s=books
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