Managing Your Career

By Fifty Lessons

Book Overview

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned . Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced. The contributors share surprisingly personal anecdotes and offer authoritative and practical advice drawn from their years of hard-earned experience. The series launches with three volumes, each of which centers on a timely topic: - Leading by Example - Managing Your Career - Managing Change A crucial resource for today's busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders. 50 Lessons' digital library holds more than 500 individual lessons from over 100 high-profile leaders from industry, the public sector, and academia from companies and institutions around the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1422118614
• ISBN13: 9781422118610
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Few career advices, some other advices

I bought this book hoping for some career strategy advice. The book is fluent and easy to read. There are some advices by experienced managers. Each idea is emphasized by a story or experience which helps to better understand and remember the lesson. The ideas are not revolutionary or systematically built into a strategy but seem to be wise and useful. This book would probably not change your life or create great impact but would remind and focus you on some good lessons. Its a book worth reading if you are thinking about developing your career.

Another great book in this series,

I'm grateful that my colleague encouraged me to read all three titles in the Harvard Business School Press "Lessons Learned" series. Of the three --"Leading by Example", "Managing Change" and "Managing Your Career" -- the latter offers the most insightful and varied advice for anyone planning a business career. There are, of course, no magic formulas for success, and the business leaders interviewed here do not pretend there are. What emerges from their stories, though, are some essential competences, values and habits of mind that aspiring executives must possess or acquire if they are to forge successful careers in the business world. Be proactive in seeking out mentors, courses and experiences that will help you develop your leadership abilities; strive to maintain your integrity at all times--it's almost impossible to regain it once it's lost; develop strong resilience, perseverance and a can-do attitude--these are the attributes you'll need in order to rise through your company; open yourself to different worlds--peoples, places, cultures --in order to experience new ideas and perspectives on things; and, don't worry about the people you've offended on the way up; success breeds selective memories--they'll only remember the good things about you! "Managing Your Career" contains many such insights from the real-life experiences of successful business men and women. It's attractively designed in a size that fits easily into pocket or purse and is easy to read, with concise stories and essential summaries or takeaways for each one. And there's a bonus. Buy the book and you get four free video lessons. All you have to do is go to www.fiftylessons.com/hbsp and type in the code at the back of your copy of the book.