Book Titles

…there is an important clue as to whether one is carrying out good work. Doing good work feels good.

During the course of their careers, most people find themselves in situations that test their sense of appropriate behavior and challenge them to reassess major aspects of their lives.

All practitioners should be able to state the core traditional mission of their own fields.

…an integrated sense of identity remains an ideal: nearly everyone suffers at times from some fragmentation of identity, some diffusion, some confusion.

Only when we can look proudly in the mirror can we be said to have affirmed our identity.

…all of us need to take stock of our situations, weight the various alternatives in light of our own values and goals, and make decisions that are optimal under the circumstances and that we can live with in the long run.

Whenever new tools, procedures, or ways of understanding arise anywhere in the culture, they produce ripples that can have far-reaching and unexpected consequences.

In every epoch a few people come up with new ideas or new ways of doing things, and if these innovations are accepted by others, dramatic transformations of the realm may result.

Professions arise when a group of individual practitioners define the specific knowledge, skills, practices, rules, and values that differentiate them from the rest of the culture.

One obvious threat to the harmony of a profession is rapid scientific or technological advances.