Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

219 Pages·2003·0.818 MB·English

by  Herminia Ibarra

Working Identity
Herminia Ibarra
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
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Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
HERMINIA IBARRA
harvard business school press
Boston, Massachusetts
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Copyright 2003 Herminia Ibarra
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States ofAmerica
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Requests for permission to use or reproduce material from this book should be
directed to [email protected], or mailed to Permissions, Harvard
Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ibarra, Herminia, 1961–
Working identity : unconventional strategies for reinventing your
career / Herminia Ibarra.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57851-778-8 (alk. paper)
1. Career changes. 2. Career changes—Psychological aspects.
3. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.
HF5384 .I2 2003
650.14—dc21
2002011665
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements ofthe American National
Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries
and Archives Z39.48-1992.
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Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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contents
preface—ix
one reinventing yourself 1
part 1 identity in transition
two possible selves 23
three between identities 45
four deep change 67
part 2 identity in practice
five crafting experiments 91
six shifting connections 113
seven making sense 133
part 3 putting the unconventional strategies to work
eight becoming yourself 161
appendix: studying career transitions—173
notes—183
index—193
about the author—201
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