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Maximize Your Potential
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Maximize Your Potential

Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks and Build an Incredible Career

Amazon Publishing, 2013 Mehr


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Well Structured
  • Engaging

Recommendation

“Follow your passion” may be the most banal advice job seekers receive, but many people heed it to their detriment. Unfortunately, chasing your passion turns out not to be relevant to most jobs, though other strong motivations may prevail. Another common delusion is that you can achieve anything – including career success – with willpower. Regrettably, that’s not how things usually work. Willpower is a circumscribed resource that can fade quickly. So what does work? Editor Jocelyn K. Glei gathers a range of astute, practical and relevant career-development articles by respected experts who address a broad range of methods and tactics. They offer multiple productive, realistic paths to career satisfaction and success. getAbstract recommends Glei’s thoughtful compilation of career-enhancement insights, suggestions and guidance to anyone seeking a new, effective approach to job satisfaction and career advancement.  

Take-Aways

  • Most people want jobs that let them to do what they love. However, trying to “follow your passion” is poor career-planning advice.
  • Regard your career as a start-up; position yourself as the entrepreneur who plans and manages it.
  • Always view yourself as a work-in-progress. You can be much more in the future than you are today.   

About the Authors

Founding director of the 99U Conference and editor of 99u.com – which earned two Webby Awards for best cultural blog – editor Jocelyn K. Glei specializes in the role of creativity and meaning in daily work.


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