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Sally Hogshead (Author)
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September 8, 2005
Do you have a career worth loving?

Do you want to become the most powerful, valuable, fulfilled version of yourself? If so, you're a careerist. Advertising and entrepreneurial rockstar Sally Hogshead reveals 100 Radical Truths for closing the gap between your current reality and your utmost potential, including:
# 15: Aspire to be the dumbest person in the room
# 31: You can be comfortable, or outstanding, but not both
# 67: Mistakes are tuition
# 96: Expressing your truest self is the ultimate competitive advantage
# 100: Make your memoirs worth reading

With groundbreaking research and startling new ideas for success, Radical Careering will become the indispensable ownerÂ’s manual to your future. Get ready to turbocharge your career with smarter goals, higher market value, and killer results.

"Radical Careering is a jolt to the old way of thinking about careers; a handbook of new thinking that will help you survive, strive and thrive in the radically new world of work."
--Jeff Taylor, founder and Chief Monster, Monster.com

“An innovative how-to-manual for anyone wanting to be more successful and satisfied in their career.”
--Andy Spade, CEO and co-founder, Kate Spade

“Take inventory of your strengths, identify your passions, then do everything in your power to carve your career toward them. Only then will you, and everyone else, see the best of you. Want to know how? Read this book.”
-- Marcus Buckingham, author of The One Thing You Need to Know, and Now, Discover Your Strengths

“Hogshead’s powerful strategies will teach you how to drive your own success, by having the fearlessness, daily courage, and curiosity to jump in the deep end and swim with real purpose.”
--Lee Ann Daly, Executive VP of Marketing, ESPN

“This book is so genius. It’s amazing to read on the page what I’ve always believed to be true. The ideas in this book will save your ass again and again. Drive is a radical careerist’s best friend.”
--Liz Phair



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"Take inventory of your strengths, identify your passions, then do everything in your power to carve your career toward them. Want to know how? Read this book."
--Marcus Buckingham, author of The One Thing You Need to Know, and Now, Discover Your Strengths

"Radical Careering is a jolt to the old way of thinking about careers; a handbook of new thinking that will help you survive, strive and thrive in the radically new world of work."
--Jeff Taylor, Founder and Chief Monster, Monster.com

"An innovative how-to manual for anyone wanting to be more successful and satisfied in their career."
--Andy Spade, CEO and co-founder, Kate Spade

"Hogshead's powerful strategies will teach you how to drive your own success, by having the fearlessness, daily courage, and curiosity to jump in the deep end and swim with real purpose."
--Lee Ann Daly, Executive VP of Marketing, ESPN

"Tomorrow's successful companies are in desperate need of radical careerists: career entrepreneurs with broad skill sets, fresh perspectives, and no regard for the status quo."
--Steven Wilheit, SVP of Global Marketing, Nissan Motors

About the Author

Sally Hogshead is one of the advertising industryÂ’s most high-profile creative directors, winning hundreds of national and international awards for clients such as Coke, Target, BMW, and the recent launch of the MINI Cooper. Since the age of twenty-three, Sally has been giving keynote speeches to and about Gen-X professionals; her book will be heavily promoted with motivational seminars around the country. She is now a highly sought-after consultant and speaker.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Gotham (September 8, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592401503
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592401505
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sally Hogshead helps world-class businesses develop messages that influence and persuade consumers, partners, and employees. Starting out as one of the most award-winning advertising writers in the country, she is today a world-renowned brand consultant and speaker, leading keynotes for companies such as Starbucks and Microsoft as well as innovation workshops. As a creative director, she develops fascinating ideas for both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. Hogshead and her work have been featured in the New York Times and on the Today show, CBS, ABC, and MSNBC.

 

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Radically excellent career book, November 26, 2005
This review is from: Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life (Paperback)
As a career consultant myself, I'd agree with just about every one of Hogshead's radical truths. I'll recommend this stocking-stuffer to my clients, with the warning, "What seems simple really isn't."

Hogshead presents ideas as aphorisms, one to a chapter, reflecting the contemporary mind that concentrates five minutes at a time. Each chapter and each aphorism could be a whole session of discussion with a career consultant, coach or counselor.

Best advice: Live in verbs. Worth ethic trumps talent. Avoid manufacturing buggy whips. Remain an underdog. Lose early. And (best) invent option C.

My only quibbles: I wish she'd omitted the research. Asking careerists what they believe isn't especially helpful.

And I must admit I get twitchy when career coaches say, "You always have options." Or as Hogshead suggests, "Being in a crap job isn't your fault. Staying in a crap job is."

Often you have to pay dues by staying in a "crap job" longer than you feel comfortable. And sometimes your options lie between a rock and a hard place. A fifty-something who's been laid off or who's made a wrong career turn will not have as many options as the twenty-something or even thirty-something. Yes, change is possible and happiness can come, but I wouldn't underestimate the price you pay.

Still, I plan to recommend this book to my Great Career Moves list as well as to many of my clients. Definitely worth buying, reading and sharing with your favorite career-frustrated friend.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to the New Workplace, September 20, 2005
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This review is from: Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life (Paperback)
Just when I thought I was alone, I found Radical Careering. It is helpful, interesting, and inspirational. I see it as being something I always will keep in my top desk drawer or brief case. The book provides not just great practical advice, but more than that, I think it creates an attitude to be emulated in the workplace. The Radical Truths are specific enough to provide good advice, yet broad enough to be applied across any myriad of situations or occupations. This book and the implications of its research are essential to anyone in the workplace today. This is the first step in something revolutionary. Radical Careering is more than just a book; it's a way of life and an inspired point of view.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect gift for those who hate their job., November 13, 2005
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So, OK, I bought a dozen copies to hand out to friends and clients- who are stuck in their life journey.
This book may not have the answers (those are inside you) but it sure gives you the questions to ask.
Personally- the one "Truth" that made this book worthwhile to me- and gave me the kick in the pants to do something different- was "Aspire to be the dumbest person in the room"- in other words- if you are always the brightest- you aren't aspiring to your potential. I can't say this book made me smarter- but it did help in getting me out of a rut- and sometimes that's all you need.
Beautifully designed- it makes a great gift book.
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