by RobertE.Gunther (Author), Gregory Shea Ph D (Author)
Selected by IBM Competitive Edge Book Club Selection.
The beauty of this book on top of its life-saving timeliness is its capacity to give the reader concrete steps to live the good life and enjoy it. The book made me understand that work can be more fun than fun.
-Warren Bennis, Ph.D., University Professor, University of Southern California, coauthor, Judgment: How Great LeadersMake Winning Calls and Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor
Change. It's your job. It just won't stop. It's relentless. It keeps coming at you like never-ending rapids in a permanent whitewater river. Change will burn you out if you don't learn how to handle it. This book is not, however, about mere survival. It is about thriving amidst the challenges of your permanent whitewater world at work.
*Protect your career, improve your resilience, and seize the opportunities in turbulent times
*Take charge, learn to pace yourself, set your own course, and lead others in ad-hoc teams
*Ride the rapids and rediscover play and adventure in today's demanding work environment
*Learn from research and the experiences of hundreds of professionals in industries from energy to telecommunications to financial services to health care
There's nothing abstract or cute about the way this book talks about change: This is practical, grounded knowledge for managing your life in a business world that's churning with change. Gregory Shea, Ph.D. and Robert Gunther show how to keep your working life on course instead of being pushed beyond your limits...find fun and fulfillment...regroup and rebound from failure...protect yourself from events you can't predict...take charge of your life, an your future!
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 1
Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
Published: 11 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0137127022
ISBN 13: 9780137127023
Book Overview: No matter what industry or business you're in, today you face an environment of permanent whitewater, characterized by intense uncertainty and unrelenting change. Most people struggle to cope with this new environment: they work with far too little sleep and far too much stress, finding themselves pushed beyond their limits without a moment to regroup. Your Job Survival Guide introduces you to the new mindsets, equipment, and skills you need to thrive in an era of non-stop, accelerating change. While other books focus on the broad, abstract principles of leading change, Your Job Survival Guide is the first book for those who need to successfully navigate the new whitewater environment when one false move can be catastrophic. Drawing on extensive experience in industries ranging from telecom to energy to health care, the authors show how to pace yourself to preserve your sanity... prepare to fail gracefully and recover quickly... retain optimism, resilience and a sense of play no matter how hard you're working... build a personal flotation device designed to protect your career security... and set your own course...... lead ad hoc, loosely linked teams that constantly form and re-form... thrive in an environment that demands more, and delivers non-stop adventure in return.
Two kinds of readers will profit from this extremely timely... guide for working in the increased uncertainty... of our times: those who need to understand our challenging world better and know it, and those who need to ... but don't yet know it.
-Fritz Steele, Ph.D., authorof The Open Organization; co-author Workplace by Design and The Feel of the Workplace
This book... about embracing and thriving in a world of high-octane change...gives...some great practical tips that you can apply back in your workplace.
- Richard's Book Review , The Proteus Leadership Centres
Gregory Shea, Ph.D., consults, researches, writes, and teaches in the areas of organizational and individual change, leadership, group effectiveness, and conflict resolution. He is president of the consulting firm Shea & Associates, a principal in The Coxe Group international consultancy; Senior Consultant at the Center for Applied Research, Adjunct Professor of Management at The Wharton School, where he has taught for more than 25 years, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a Faculty Associate of the Wharton School's Center for Leadership and Change. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, Shea holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.
Robert Gunther is coauthor or collaborator on more than 20 books, including The Wealthy 100 and The Truth About Making Smart Decisions. He has appeared on CNBC's Power Lunch, NPR's Morning Edition, and numerous local and national radio and television programs, and his projects have been featured in The New York Times, Time, USA Today, and Fortune. His columns or articles also have been published in Harvard Business Review, American Heritage, Investor's Business Daily, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. As founder of Gunther Communications, he has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, universities, and major nonprofits. He is a graduate of Princeton University.
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