Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2012
For example, an executive in his mid-thirties and in a career transition began by asking "How can I make a bucket of money?" Several years ago Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma ) and colleagues at Innosight coined the phrase "jobs-to-be-done" as part of a methodology they use to build new billion dollar businesses.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. This trend cuts across all demographics.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 19, 2012
My own publisher, HBS Press, published two the very same month as my book — one of them co-authored by heavyweight Clay Christensen. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:)
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