Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge? | Date: 28 April 2011, 05:32
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Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge?
By Cliff Hakim
* Publisher: Intercultural Press
* Number Of Pages: 168
* Publication Date: 2007-08-25
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0891062300
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780891062301
Product Description:
On any given day, more than 4 million Americans job search online. And regardless of age or profession--from Boomers to Gen Y's--today's financially encumbered and emotionally conflicted workers are looking for more than money as they pursue something new, better, different. Rethinking Work delivers the perfect antidote to the bookshelves full of advice on how to write a killer resume and dress for success, instead offering a proven formula for thriving amid the inevitable change and tumult that is driving the demand for constant innovation, flexibility, and creativity. In other words, author Cliff Hakim says it's time to stop being victims of these career shifts and make our jobs begin to work for us!
Summary: Change your work...and create a life you desire!
Rating: 5
Given the enormous changes in the financial markets in the past few months, perhaps now, more than ever, it is time to re-evaluate what is important to you...and Rethinking Work may just be the tool you need.
Hakim provides many different avenues for you to discover what kind of work best suits you. He guides you with powerful questions that you may not want to address...since they force you to get your answers...from inside.
Some of the questions include:
What do I really want?
What stirs my passion?
How do I engage my spirit at work?
What gifts do I have to offer?
What qualities do I value most?
What can I do to earn a living that aligns more with who I am?
The key is that you are held responsible for discovering what is in your heart. He asks if you will take a risk and let your imagination run wild...exploring your passions and writing about your dreams.
Hakim encourages you to: reflect, explore, and engage as you move through this path of discovery. You can start by brainstorming ideas, take a trial run, and then lock into to the best idea (or bulls-eye) for your new direction.
I especially like his suggestion to ask 6-8 key people you know:
How do I add value to your life? When you get the answers to these questions, you may gain some excellent insight to your future life.
If you are considering a change, and you want practical ideas to explore your options, then I encourage you to take charge of your future and read this book!
Summary: Amidst reams of career books, Cliff manages to offer truly fresh insight, again
Rating: 5
Cliff amazes me with his unique insight about what is really important in our work. He helps us understand how intertwined our identities and souls are with our work, then how to really determine what satisfies and motivates us to perform. This can't be faked if we are to be truly drawn vs. pushed by our work. Cliff guides readers through defining themselves from within vs. the default of external definition like; what does the market or other people need me to do? Without this degree of focus, we are destined to reactive and diffuse career transitions, or none at all.
Summary: A thoughtful look at regaining control
Rating: 5
You have a good job and make a nice living, but lately something is missing. The spark has gone out of your work - and your life. You would like to make a change, but you don't know how or where to start. Yet you know that one day you'll be dead inside if you remain too much longer in your current job. Abandoning the rat race and heading off in some novel direction is never easy, but finding a viable way out has become a survival imperative for many of today's professionals. Are you in a rut? Career expert Cliff Hakim's three-step career change and enhancement program can help you transform your life. getAbstract sees his conversational book as an informed, logical map to new career directions and self-fulfillment. Never preachy, Hakim offers sensible, if not especially innovative, advice, urging anyone contemplating a career change to reflect and explore first, and then engage. It's not "fire, ready, aim" but "ready, aim, fire." His warmly supportive book explains how to make a workable transition to a more rewarding professional life.
Summary: This book is a gift!
Rating: 5
This book is for every person who has ever asked themselves on a Sunday afternoon or evening "Why am I going back to that job tomorrow?" Some find no good answer and this can lead to a growing sense of quiet desperation, a kind of 'Sunday Night Blues' or maybe just a sigh of resignation. But the author of this book sugests that this kind of question can be a helpful jumping off point to get you on the road to a work life that compensates you with more than money.
But, Hakim explains, reflecting is just the start of the process; one then needs to move forward to explore (inward and outward) and engage. If you need this book you'll know it immediately from my first comment. If so, act - move - get it while the spirit is upon you. If someone close to you needs this book, get it for them as it is truly a gift of love.
Summary: Great perspective
Rating: 4
Rethink Work offers a great perspective on forging a path with you plotting out your own conscious, proactive course. I found it very helpful and inspiriing. Highly recommend; very worthy read
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