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Career Choice and
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Work and Leadership Career Choice and
Change
The book to buy to understand what a "strength"
really is, and is not. Includes a password to use
in taking an online assessment, the StrengthFinder, that
will give you your top five strengths.
What
Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for
Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard
Nelson Bolles. The classic text on figuring
out who you are by triangulating what you've done, what
you're good at, and what you most enjoy.
The Authentic Career: Following the Path of Self-Discovery to Professional Fulfillment
by Maggie Craddock.
This book has some great exercises for figuring out how
you got where you are, and how to get where you're
going. Highly recommended.
Who
Do You Think You Are? by Harary and Donahue.
A self-assessment tool
using the Berkeley Personality Profile that aims to tell
you not only who you think you are, but, more
importantly, who you really are, on the way to better
understanding how to better interact with others,
recognize patterns in your life, and deal with
others.
Let
Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer.
This came highly recommended by a very astute coach I
know.
Too
Young to Retire: 101 Ways to Start the Rest of
Your Life by Howard Stone and Marika
Stone. For those over 50 who want
inspiration and resources aimed at exploring the 'what's
next?' question.
Not a how-to book, rather, a great read about how & why
people decide finally to do what they do.
Work and
Leadership
Primal
Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional
Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee,
Richard E. Boyatzis. Goleman, the author of
the seminal "Emotional Intelligence" (and several other
recommended books), does it again.
Zen
at Work by Les Kaye.
Real
Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Chingby
James A. Autrey and Stephen Mitchell.
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