The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy - Hardcover

Mitchell, Pamela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525951466 ISBN 13: 9780525951469

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 2009

Synopsis

Reinvention is the key to success in these volatile times—and Pamela Mitchell holds the key to reinvention!

In The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention, America's Reinvention Coach® Pamela Mitchell offers every tool readers need to navigate the full arc of career change. Part I introduces the Reinvention Mindset, with what you need to know to be prepared mentally to get started. In Part II, you read the real-life stories of ten individuals who successfully made the leap to new and unexpected careers, using the 10 laws:

The 1st Law: It Starts With a Vision for Your Life
The 2nd Law: Your Body Is Your Best Guide
The 3rd Law: Progress Begins When You Stop Making Excuses
The 4th Law: What You Seek is on the Road Less Traveled
The 5th Law: You’ve Got the Tools in Your Toolbox
The 6th Law: Your Reinvention Board is Your Lifeline
The 7th Law: Only a Native Can Give You the Inside Scoop
The 8th Law: They Won't "Get" You Until You Speak Their Language
The 9th Law: It Takes the Time That it Takes
The 10th Law: The World Buys Into an Aura of Success

Each story is followed by an in-depth lesson that explains how to adapt these laws to your own career goals, and what actions and precautions to take. The lessons answer all your tactical concerns about navigating the roadblocks, getting traction and managing your fears. The final section provides workbook exercises for fine-tuning your reinvention strategies for maximum results.

Clear-headed, calming, practical, and thorough, this is the ideal action plan for getting through any career crisis and ending up securely in the lifestyle you've always dreamed of having.

About this title

About the Author

Pamela Mitchell, CLC, is a coach, public speaker, and media personality who has reinvented her own career several times and codified the laws that can help anyone through the process. She's the founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, a dynamic organization devoted to helping successful professionals transform their careers. She has appeared on the Today Show and been profiled or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, More, BusinessWeek, Men's Health, Good Housekeeping and Black Enterprise.

Review

"Use Mitchell's 10 makes-sense laws as your guide to opportunity..."
-Palm Beach Post

"Mitchell's advice is spot on."
-Dallas Morning News

"Pamela Mitchell, CEO of the Reinvention Institute, expertly pairs personal stories of career 180s with practical advice for how you, too, can veer off course-and still be OK. She doesn't promise it'll be easy, but of all the useful tools she offers, her honesty is the best."
-Harvard Business Review

"After reading Pamela Mitchell's book, I am left with an overwhelming feeling that anyone can reinvent their careers and their lives by following this simple step-by-step instruction manual. Easy to Read, Easy to Follow, Easy to Succeed..."
-Norm Brodsky, Senior Contributing Editor INC. Magazine, author of The Knack

"Pamela Mitchell's book is like having your own personal reinvention coach! She takes you on as a client, fully engaging you with fascinating examples of real-life career transformations and outlining, step-by-step, how you can recreate their success for yourself. Without pulling punches, she shines a light on the fears that block your reinvention and powerfully challenges you to give up the excuses that get in your way. She gives you the information you need to start on your journey, and cheers you on every step of the way. Move over What Color is Your Parachute?--this book is the new go-to-guide for career changers!"
-Lauren Doliva, Managing Partner, Chief Advisor Network, Heidrick & Struggles

"In The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention, Pamela Mitchell shares the secret strategies that successful reinventors use to land on their feet, even in turbulent times. If you want a practical plan for a richer career and life--in any kind of job market--read this book."
-Barbara Stanny, bestselling author of Secrets of Six Figure Women and Overcoming Underearning(r).

"It's never too late to re-write your script...and Pamela Mitchell is the perfect person to show you how. If The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention doesn't make you stop worrying about the future and start taking action to create your dream, nothing will."
-Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., author of Stop Sabotaging Your Career and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0525951466
• ISBN 13: 9780525951469
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272