Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to “get unstuck” can put your career and personal life—as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization—at risk.

In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse—by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change.

Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward.
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Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to “get unstuck” can put your career and personal life—as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization—at risk.

In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse—by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change.

Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward.
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Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

by Timothy Butler
Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

by Timothy Butler

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Overview

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to “get unstuck” can put your career and personal life—as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization—at risk.

In Getting Unstuck, business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse—by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change.

Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse—and defining a meaningful path forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781422148112
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 01/04/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 221,458
File size: 324 KB

About the Author

Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. He teaches career coaching and consults to organizations worldwide on career development issues.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Part I Impasse

1 Facing Crisis 3

2 Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves 15

3 Opening Up and Letting Go 39

4 Shifting to a New Understanding 49

Part II Vision

5 Our Deepest Interests 81

The First Pattern in the Carpet

6 Learning to Let Our Passions Guide Us 101

7 Power, People, and Achievement 117

Three Interwoven Patterns

8 Mapping Our Insights 137

Patterns in the Sand

Part III Getting Unstuck

9 Moving from Impasse to Action 157

10 Living at the Border 167

Appendixes

A Continuing the Journey 173

An Annotated Bibliography

B A Note on Impasse and Depression 187

C Scoring the One Hundred Jobs Exercise 191

Notes 195

Index 199

About the Author 205

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