Losing Your Job-Reclaiming Your Soul : Stories of Resilience, Renewal, and Hope (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Pulley, Mary Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787909378 ISBN 13: 9780787909376

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1997

Synopsis

Even job loss has a silver lining

A truly wonderful book! Through stories, myths and metaphors, Mary Lynn Pulley examines the factors which help people develop more meaning in their work and their lives. This book is not only for those going through career transitions, but for all of us who want to be more resilient in today's work world.
-- Betsy A. Collard, Career Action Center

Right-sizing. Reengineering. Organizational restructuring. No matter the corporate euphemism in which it's couched, the loss of a job remains one of the most devastating events a person can encounter. But some are finding it to be a blessing in disguise. In Losing Your Job, Reclaiming Your Soul, Mary Lynn Pulley presents a positive, practical and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing, or is thinking of leaving his or her job. Here are the results of dozens of interviews with high-performing professionals who bounced back from the trauma of involuntary job loss. Their stories provide powerful, real-world lessons in flexibility, determination and fulfillment. It 's a book that puts the prospect of job loss in meaningful perspective, and gives us insight into how to turn one of life's most catastrophic experiences into a wellspring of personal and professional reawakening.

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From the Inside Flap

Right-sizing. Reengineering. Organizational restructuring. No matter the corporate euphemism in which it's couched, the loss of a job remains one of the most devastating events a person can encounter. But some are finding it to be a blessing in disguise. In Losing Your Job, Reclaiming Your Soul, Mary Lynn Pulley presents a positive, practical and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing or is thinking of leaving his or her job. Here are the results of dozens of interviews with career-oriented, high-performing professionals who bounced back from the trauma of involuntary job loss. Their stories provide powerful, real-world lessons in flexibility, determination and fulfillment. Interweaving her subjects' stories with themes from myths and other well-known tales, Pulley creates a multidimensional work that

• Illustrates the new career model our information age demands
• Examines the demise of our core cultural beliefs — including The American Dream and The Promise of Job Security — and provides guidance for investing those beliefs with new meaning
• Presents the various ways people respond to job loss and describes why some experience positive, transformative change as a result
• Challenges our basic views about our jobs — and our lives — and provides lessons for reclaiming meaning in both.

Imaginative, illuminating, and ultimately inspiring, Losing Your Job, Reclaiming Your Soul puts the prospect of job loss in meaningful perspective, and gives us insight into how to turn one of life's most catastrophic experiences into a wellspring of personal and professional reawakening. No matter the corporate euphemism in which it's couched, the loss of a job remains one of the most devastating events a person can encounter. But some are finding it to be a blessing in disguise. With this book, author Mary Lynn Pulley presents a positive, practical and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost,

From the Back Cover

A positive, practical, and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing, or is thinking of leaving their job in today's downsized, restructured workplace. As more and more Americans are learning firsthand, losing a job can be emotionally, financially, and even physically devastating. But through interviews with dozens of professionals for whom involuntary job loss served as a catalyst for personal growth, Mary Lynn Pulley reveals how high-performing, career-oriented people found meaning, purpose, and security through job loss. Emphasizing the opportunities for transformation in transition, Pulley challenges readers to reexamine their assumptions about their jobs — and their lives — and teaches them to reclaim meaning in both.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0787909378
• ISBN 13: 9780787909376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272