Is it Too Late to Run away and Join the Circus?: A Guide for Your Second Life - Softcover

Smye, Marti Diane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764566431 ISBN 13: 9780764566431

Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

Downsized? Fed up? Don't worry - there's still time to start over! Part nspiration, part toolkit, this book answers the question What am I going to dowith my next life?" - showing career changers how to embrace new professional lives as well as the "new you" that emerges. From corporate upheaval to personal discontent, Is It Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? explores multiple reasons for considering a career change andprovides the most effective tools for taking charge of a career transition. Quizzes and checklists help identify individual strengths and desires - both personal and professional - to help you invest in your personal growth and develop a realistic and flexible plan of action.This book is filled with uplifting, real-life stories from people who have found the confidence and self-management savvy to reach out and grab their dream - from a biology professor turned jungle guide to a communications exec turned charter boatoperator."

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Smye is a world-renowned thought leader, organizational behaviorist, and executive consultant in the fields of individual and organizational change. She is also a Founding Principal of Maddox Smye, LLC, an international consulting firm. She is the author of You Don't Change a Company by Memo and the coauthor of Corporate Abuse.

From the Back Cover

"Through her valuable advice and insight, Marti enables readers to achieve their goals by mining their own strengths and those of the people around them. In these challenging times, we are all well served by Marti's engaging advice and counsel." ?Zoë Baird, CEO, Markle Foundation Laid Off? Burned Out? Find Out How to Switch Careers?And Live Happily Ever After Do you suspect a downsizing outbreak at your company? Do you feel trapped in your current position? Whatever the catalyst, you will likely face a hard fact at some point in your life: the need for a career change. In this unique guide, now updated, Marti Smye, Ph.D., gives you targeted tools to take charge of that change?and match your strengths, your beliefs, and life's realities to your dreams. A corporate change management specialist, Smye shows you how to apply the secrets of cutting-edge organizations to your own career and life. With quizzes and checklists at every step, you'll learn how to take inventory, invest in yourself, create your own "board of directors," develop a realistic, flexible business plan?and soar to new heights as the CEO of "You, Inc." Is It Too Late to Run Away and Join the Circus? is filled with uplifting, real-life stories. You'll meet Paul, a professor of biology who now guides tours of the Amazon jungle, as well as many others who found the confidence and self-management savvy to go for their dreams. "Change is not an option; it is going to happen to you," Smye firmly believes. With this guide, you too can make change less daunting and continually rewarding?on the job and beyond.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764566431
• ISBN 13: 9780764566431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304