Book Titles

…the networks we rely on in a stable job are rarely the ones that lead us to something new and different.

No matter how common it has become, no one has figured out how to avoid the turmoil of career change.

For those of us… who want change but lack a clear direction, the hardest part is finding an alternative to the path we are already on.

Change always takes much longer than we expect because to make room for the new, we have to get rid of some of the old selves we are still dragging around…

Once the change is underway but long before the transition is completed, different versions of ourselves battle it out in a long and anguished middle period.

Few working lives are untouched by organizational changes, internal management shuffles, office politics, and the stress, burnout, or disaffection that goes with the territory.

Only by testing do we learn what is really appealing and feasible – and, in the process, create our own opportunities.

Taking one or more last glances backward is necessary preparation for taking the leap forward.

No matter how unhappy we may be in a job, most of us continue to revisit the possibility of making it work because the present role is necessarily tied to a possible self… of whom we once wanted to become.

Long before we start exploring alternatives, we also begin to disconnect socially and psychologically. A slow and gradual shift in reference groups… starts to take place.