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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
by Herminia Ibarra
from Harvard Business School Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Not very much to the book... 
There is honestly not a lot to this book.
The fundamental contribution made is "Do stuff, and see how you feel about it -- don't think about everything you could do, and plot out a detailed plan, before even considering switching. You can make mistakes."
As opposed to the "Well, spent a lot of time thinking about what you'd like to do. Figure it out yet? No? Well then go back and think some more." approach that is supposedly all so common today.
This, interspersed with a lot of stories of... more info
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"Follow Your Passion? Not In This Masterpiece!" 
If what you're looking for is a book that will detail how to "follow your passion," this is the wrong book for you. Ibarra starts her research from scratch and challenges much of the conventional wisdom.
Most people who are considering a career change never seem to take the final step. Their approach to career change is ready, aim, fire--with a great deal of aim--pondering, deliberating and cogitating that continues for years, resulting in the absence of fire--forever a virgin, failing to consummate.... more info
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Refreshingly adult 
Countless self-help guides to switching jobs or careers assume you've got just one true identity in life, and therefore, just one true purpose. Your task is to look so deep inside yourself that you discover this purpose. It's a little like the old notion of a soulmate - that out of all the billions of people on this planet, only one can be our true love. You plow through these sorts of books doing endless exercises, ranging from the conventional (Briggs-Meyers) to the unconventional (list your top 10 most... more info
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Keeping Your Head When Others Are Losing Theirs
So many of us feel lost in these shaky economic times and troubling globalizing trends that foster paranoia and sometimes very rational fears about job in/security. Ibarra offers helpful advice about finding ways to uncover "what's next" for you in the professional domain. She doesn't subscribe to the fashionable belief that there is just one treasure within you that is the work you were meant to do, like so much psycho-spiritual literature out there. Rather, she urges readers to experiment, even to play... more info
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