Recharge Your Career (HBR Article Collection)

HBR OnPoint collections include an overview and 3 full-text HBR articles, each with a synopsis and annotated bibliography. You can expect to spend roughly 50 years in the workplace--more if economic downturns delay your retirement. How to remain stimulated and fulfilled, not grow bored or depleted? Make a life, not just a living? Contribute your best? Periodically revitalize your career by switching industries or companies, or fine-tuning your current role. Consider these two approaches to reawakening your passion for work: 1) Think, then act: Clarify your passions and values and assess your strengths and working styles. Then, identify the organizations and work that offer ideal matches. 2) Act, then think: Experiment with several working identities without compromising your current job; for example, through moonlighting or pro bono work. Then, having learned from first-hand experience, take more decisive steps--until you've reinvented your professional self. Both approaches offer important advantages. This collection helps you customize a strategy to work best for you. The three Harvard Business Review articles in this collection: "How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career" by Herminia Ibarra (HBR reprint R0212B), "Managing Oneself" by Peter F. Drucker (HBR reprint 99204), and "Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People" by Timothy Butler and James Waldroop (HBR reprint 99502).