Working Identity

A powerful model for career reinvention that reverses conventional wisdomIncludes fascinating case studies of personal and professional reinventions-from literature professor to stockbroker, from psychiatrist to Buddhist monk, and from investment banker to fiction writer, among others.Gives readers a new way to understand change in their lives. Career change is not a step-by-step linear process-it's crooked and takes much longer than we think. Nor is change the result of one big event. Rather, many small steps add up to a successful change.

Herminia Ibarra is Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France