On any given day, more than 4 million Americans job search online. And regardless of age or profession—from Boomers to Gen Y's—today's financially encumbered and emotionally conflicted workers are looking for more than money as they pursue something new, better, different. Rethinking Work delivers the perfect antidote to the bookshelves full of advice on how to write a killer resume and dress for success, instead offering a proven formula for thriving amid the inevitable change and tumult that is driving the demand for constant innovation, flexibility, and creativity. In other words, author Cliff Hakim says it's time to stop being victims of these career shifts and make our jobs begin to work for us!
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Does not portray a fad or fashion, but is a prctical book for all who want to explore new options and change career directions. There are many useful tips and examples that can help you take charge of your career and move forward. A worthwhile read at a career crossroads. -- Business Executive, February 2008
Provides a combination of career and life advice to clients who are trying to break away from a cycle in which the job consumes their thoughts, including valuable time for reflection. -- T+D, August 2007
Provides a combination of career and life advice to clients who are trying to break away from a cycle in which the job consumes their thoughts, including valuable time for reflection. -- T+D, August 2007
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On any given day, more than four million Americans job-search online. And regardless of age or profession--from boomers to Gen Ys--today's financially encumbered and emotionally conflicted workers are looking for more than money as they pursue something new, better, and different.
Following the success of his best seller "We Are All Self-Employed," Cliff Hakim is back with a timely and essential tool kit for identifying our gifts, turning them into marketable skills, and pursuing our dreams--no matter where we are on the work-life path. A powerful antidote to the pressures of working in today's performance-driven workplace, RETHINKING WORK asks thought-provoking and penetrating questions that lay out the challenge: develop the courage of an explorer, the tenacity and attention to detail of a detective, the pragmatism of an entrepreneur, and the imagination and daring of a dreamer.
Hakim brings to life the diverse stories of hundreds of people he has coached and mentored through this process of reflection, exploration, and engagement to deliver a heart-centered philosophy with the pragmatism needed to create new and more satisfying work and richly fulfilling careers.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Grab this book if you want work to be more than just a paycheck!,
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This review is from: Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge? (Paperback)
Living in the Boston area, I had the good fortune to actually work with Cliff Hakim 6 years ago, as a client in his "Rethinking Work" consulting practice. I interviewed numerous career consultants in the area, but chose Cliff because his approach was passionate and holistic--so opposite the standard approach that is dishearteningly mechanical and market focused. That was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Cliff's Rethinking Work process steered me through a great deal of inner reflection; without which I might have blindly made my next career decision. It gave me permission and tools to explore options; without which I would have missed new doors of career opportunity. It gave me the courage to engage a nonlinear course--taking side streets, meeting dead ends, retracing steps, leaping into the unknown; without which I wouldn't have reached the right destination at the right time. I recently learned of Cliff's newest book--"Rethinking Work; Are you ready to take charge?"--and read it out of curiosity to see if he could put across in writing, the process that was so wonderfully alive and effective during our coaching sessions. I was amazed to find it so engaging and equally as thorough. I was also pleased to discover new concepts (Inner-economy) and tools (Capability & Partnership Statement) he's introduced since I went through his career counseling program. "Rethinking Work; Are you ready to take charge" is an excellent book; enabling, human, and refreshing! I'd recommend it to anyone who wants work to be more than just a paycheck!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Guide to Reinventing Yourself and Your Relationship to Work,
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This review is from: Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge? (Paperback)
All of us are constantly reinventing ourselves, looking for ways to tend our spirits as we take on new projects, new clients, new phases of our lives.
This book from Cliff Hakim, a career consultant in Boston, is a soulful approach to helping us retune, rejig, or otherwise alter our work so we can feel less driven or reactive and get more satisfying returns. I'd recommend this book to freelancers and self employed people, as well as to those working in an organization. Hakim illuminates the process we are all eternally engaged in --- of rediscovering different parts of ourselves, using other values and skills to adapt to our own changing inner needs as well as to the marketplace. Rethinking Work is about staying engaged and happy, while we rub up against the collective and find ways to pay our bills. It's about not letting the job you do run you -- but turning that around so you do conscious and creative work, and find the right environment in which to use your native gifts. Hakim's advice is good for the boomers who are looking for new and more fulfilling careers, and for the up and coming generation who will have to cope with an ever changing workplace and reinvent themselves at least a dozen times in the years ahead. This is better than the usual career book; it's a hymn to the creative spirit. It's also interactive and more like a personal coaching session. The exercises in here are terrifically helpful and wonderfully revealing, and they can be done many times--as often as one needs to keep the inner life and the outer one in synch. If you don't need this book right now, you wll at some point in the future. In the meantime, you'll want to recommend it to your friends and clients who feel a certain itch or are in transition. It's great company, and you'll find Hakim a knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. He puts the Socratic method on the page and shows you how to birth yourself, your ideas, and your products.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Feed your mind and heart,
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Rethinking Work will challenge you and comfort you. It will stimulate your mind and feed your spirit.
Cliff Hakim draws on more than twenty years experience counseling and coaching individuals on career issues that have kept them stuck and frustrated. In this book he talks to the reader as a trusted and wise advisor. You will not want to be without this book as you navigate challenging career issues. Cliff employs a variety of exercises, stories and models to help readers move forward in their careers. This is a thoughtful, insightful and practical guide that readers will refer to repeatedly throughout their careers. Mark Campbell Author of Five Gifts of Insightful Leaders
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