Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

Business & Money

Ibarra, Herminia

Business Culture

Harvard Business Review Press

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarraan expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business schoolshows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you: Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiarand possibly outdatedleadership style to evolve Ibarra turns the usual think first and then act” philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsightthe valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why and which relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become. Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your career to the next level. It’s time to learn by doing.

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school—shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you: Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions Diversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a bigger range of stakeholders Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve Ibarra turns the usual "think first and then act" philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why and which relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become. Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your career to the next level. It's time to learn by doing.

Job Hunting & Careers

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How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession. In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we’ve learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities. Through engrossing stories?from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist?Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: Explore possible selves Craft and execute "identity experiments" Create "small wins" that keep momentum going Survive the rocky period between career identities Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition Make time for reflection?without missing out on windows of opportunity Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming. A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession. In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we’ve learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities. Through engrossing storiesfrom a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelistIbarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: Explore possible selves Craft and execute "identity experiments" Create "small wins" that keep momentum going Survive the rocky period between career identities Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition Make time for reflectionwithout missing out on windows of opportunity Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming. A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

Harvard Business School Press

A year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We’ve examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
<li>Tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete</li>
<li>Fuel performance by redesigning your organization’s practices around feedback</li>
<li>Learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making</li>
<li>Understand why your strategy execution isn’t working―and how to fix it</li>
<li>Lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone</li>
<li>Transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivityThis collection of best-selling articles includes:
</li>
<li>“Reinventing Performance Management,” by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall</li>
<li>“The Transparency Trap,” by Ethan Bernstein</li>
<li>“Profits Without Prosperity,” by William Lazonick</li>
<li>“Outsmart Your Own Biases,” by Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, and John W. Payne</li>
<li>“The 3-D Printing Revolution,” by Richard D’Aveni</li>
<li>“Why Strategy Execution Unravels―and What to Do About It,” by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull</li>
<li>“The Authenticity Paradox,” by Herminia Ibarra</li>
<li>“The Discipline of Business Experimentation,” by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi</li>
<li>“When Senior Managers Won’t Collaborate,” by Heidi K. Gardner</li>
<li>“Workspaces That Move People,” by Ben Waber, Jennifer Magnolfi, and Greg Lindsay</li>
<li>“Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business,” by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani</li>

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award Winning article "Profits Without Prosperity ) (HBR s 10 Must Reads)

BUCKINGHAM, Marcus

Review, Harvard Business

D'Aveni, Richard

Sull, Donald N.

Management & Leadership

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time.
If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to becoming a great manager of others.
This book will inspire you to:
<ul>
<li>Develop your emotional intelligence</li>
<li>Influence your colleagues through the science of persuasion</li>
<li>Assess your team and enhance its performance</li>
<li>Network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement</li>
<li>Navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers</li>
<li>Get support from above</li>
<li>View the big picture in your decision making</li>
<li>Balance your team’s work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace</li>
</ul>
This collection of articles includes “Becoming the Boss,” by Linda A. Hill; “Leading the Team You Inherit,” by Michael D. Watkins; “Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,” by Carol A. Walker; “Managing the High-Intensity Workplace,” by Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan; “Harnessing the Science of Persuasion,” Robert B. Cialdini; “What Makes a Leader?” by Daniel Goleman; “The Authenticity Paradox,” by Herminia Ibarra; “Managing Your Boss,” by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; “How Leaders Create and Use Networks,” by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; “Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?” by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass; and BONUS ARTICLE: “How Managers Become Leaders,” by Michael D. Watkins.

Cialdini, Robert B.

Hill, Linda A.

GOLEMAN, DANIEL

Authentic Leadership (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority?
This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.
This volume includes the work of:
<ul>
<li>Bill George</li>
<li>Herminia Ibarra</li>
<li>Rob Goffee</li>
<li>Gareth Jones</li>
</ul>
This collection of articles includes: "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership" by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer; "The Authenticity Paradox" by Herminia Ibarra; "What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable" by Emma Seppala; "Practice Tough Empathy" by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Cracking the Code That Stalls People of Color" by Sylvia Ann Hewitt; "For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad" by Sarah Green Carmichael; and "Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?" an interview with Gautam Mukunda and Gianpiero Petriglieri by Adi Ignatius and Sarah Green Carmichael.
How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

George, Bill

Goffee, Rob

Jones,Gareth

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: <ul> <li>Tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete</li> <li>Fuel performance by redesigning your organization's practices around feedback</li> <li>Learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making</li> <li>Understand why your strategy execution isn't working--and how to fix it</li> <li>Lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone</li> <li>Transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity</li> </ul> This collection of best-selling articles includes: <ul> <li>"Reinventing Performance Management," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall</li> <li>"The Transparency Trap," by Ethan Bernstein</li> <li>"Profits Without Prosperity," by William Lazonick</li> <li>"Outsmart Your Own Biases," by Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, and John W. Payne</li> <li>"The 3-D Printing Revolution," by Richard D'Aveni</li> <li>"Why Strategy Execution Unravels--and What to Do About It," by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull</li> <li>"The Authenticity Paradox," by Herminia Ibarra</li> <li>"The Discipline of Business Experimentation," by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi</li> <li>"When Senior Managers Won't Collaborate," by Heidi K. Gardner</li> <li>"Workspaces That Move People," by Ben Waber, Jennifer Magnolfi, and Greg Lindsay</li> <li>"Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani</li> </ul>

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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award Winning article "Profits Without Prosperity ) (HBR s 10 Must Reads)

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

Authentic Leadership (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award Winning article "Profits Without Prosperity ) (HBR s 10 Must Reads)