文档介绍：Working Identity
Herminia Ibarra
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
PRESS
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Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
HERMINIA IBARRA
harvard business school press
Boston, Massachusetts
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Copyright 2003 Herminia Ibarra
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ibarra, Herminia, 1961–
Working identity : unconventional strategies for reinventing your
career / Herminia Ibarra.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57851-778-8 (alk. paper)
1. Career changes. 2. Career changes—Psychological aspects.
3. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.
HF5384 .I2 2003
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2002011665
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National
Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries
and Archives -1992.
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Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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contents
preface—ix
one reinventing yourself 1
part 1 identity in transition
two possible selves 23
three between identities 45