In a challenging economy, managers have to be more thoughtful and strategic than ever about managing their careers. Charting your course to career success requires smart decision making and critical planning today. In this collection of articles from "Harvard Business Review", you'll get the essential advice you need to keep your career on track in tough times and beyond. "The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series" is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established "Harvard Business Review" as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.
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The Harvard Business Review Paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.
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This review is from: Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career in Tough Times (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) (Paperback)
I came across this book by accident. Book like this one don't land on display tables of major bookstores. There's no bright, glossy cover. In fact, the cover layout looks like a downsized edition of Harvard Business Review. The book includes just eight articles from previous HBR issues. They're not new. But they *are* unique.
The best chapters: "Courage as a Skill," or "How to decide when and how to speak out." Sometimes you can't afford to keep silent but often you can still keep your job. "The Right Way to be Fired" offers excellent advice to contrast the tenure mindset with the assignment mindset when thinking of jobs. If you're at a level where you get contracts, they say, think of your contract as a pre-nup and plan for the possibility of divorce or dissolution. They don't add that our infrastructure of health and unemployment benefits are tied to a tenure mindset, even as the corporate world moves to an assignment mindset. The chapter on resilience includes the fascinating insight that corporate resilience differs from individual resilience; a team of resilient individuals is not the same as a resilient team. The chapter on story-telling is a gem. I've encouraged my own clients to develop a "spin" on their stories but this chapter goes much further. Telling your story means presenting your background in terms of your new career, without lying or embellishing. I also liked the chapter on telling your career story and of course Herminia Ibarra's now classic article, "How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Job." Ibarra's essay has now evolved into one of the best career change books you will find anywhere. Flaws? The first chapter is a little bland - more of the "same old, same old" about holding your job in a recession while still cultivating a Plan B. In my experience, while these moves may help, often politics and favoritism take over during turbulent times. Additionally, one author encourages readers to review their Myers-Briggs test scores along with their 360 feedback to gain insight. The 360 feedback may be helpful but Myers Briggs doesn't seem much better than astrology. In fact, one article in this book recounts an executive's visit to an astrologer, with results that turned out to be even more accurate than any Myers Briggs would be. Highly recommended for career coaches and counselors as well as anyone with an interest in career issues, practical or theoretical. Just two or three of these articles will be worth the price of the book.
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2-3 articles are good,
By Bharath Mukundakrishnan (Sunnyvale, CA, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harvard Business Review on Managing Your Career in Tough Times (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) (Paperback)
A couple of articles were good, particularly the one on "How to stay stuck on the wrong career". Of course the advice is obvious but because it is backed by data it lends a lot more credibility to it. The best advice often tend to be old sayings, cliches but its impact is felt only when u can really relate to it personally. I thought this article did it for me, atleast. Again it depends on the personality.
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