Turbulent Times, You Cant Expect Others to Save You, In: How to Keep Yourself Prepared for Any Economy

by Gregory Shea PhD, Robert Gunther

Overview

This Element is an excerpt from Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (ISBN: 9780137127023) by Gregory Shea and Robert Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.

 

Develop the mindset and skills to recover when your career “boat” capsizes--because, in today’s whitewater economy, chances are it will!

 

At 36, Kathleen Flinn was laid off from Microsoft. Her boyfriend urged her to go to Paris to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a chef. She enrolled at Le Cordon Bleu restaurant school and wrote a memoir about her experiences. The vessel carrying her work life capsized, but she didn’t drown. Far from it....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132143455
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	10/16/2009
Series:	FT Press Delivers Elements
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	10
File size:	447 KB

About the Author

Gregory Shea, Ph.D., consults, researches, writes, and teaches in the areas of organizational and individual change, group effectiveness, and conflict resolution. He is a principal in the Coxe Group international consultancy; Senior Consultant at the Center for Applied Research, and faculty member at Wharton. A graduate of Harvard, he holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale. Robert Gunther is a professional business writer who has worked on 17 books, including The Truth About Making Decisions and Convergence Marketing.