Publisher Description
A purposeful career path starts with you.
As a woman, navigating your career path can be challenging. At times you're faced with lack of support, unconscious bias and negative assumptions, disruptive career pauses, and more. So how can you get beyond these obstacles and progress your career in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling?
Taking Charge of Your Career helps listeners navigate the tricky territory of charting a rewarding career path. Whether you're new to the workforce, reentering after a pause, or trying to find your way through a midcareer slump, you'll find research, advice, and practical tips to help you move forward.
This book will inspire you to: decide what a meaningful career looks like to you, align yourself with the right supporters and mentors, approach hard decisions with confidence, navigate difficult transitions, and be your own biggest advocate.
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About the Authors
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, eleven internationally licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Dorie Clark is a
marketing strategy consultant and frequent contributor to Harvard Business
Review and Forbes. Recognized as a branding expert by the Associated Press, she
has worked with a diverse range of clients, including Google, the Ford
Foundation, Yale University, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the National
Park Service. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark is adjunct
professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of
Business.
Stacey Abrams is the New York Times bestselling author of Our Time Is Now, among other books, an entrepreneur, and a political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as minority leader, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels. She is the founder of Fair Fight, Fair Count, and the Southern Economic Advancement Project. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory board of Climate Power 2020 and the advocacy board of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. She has received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.