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Make It Work

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Make It Work

Navigate Your Career Without Leaving Your Organization

Davies-Black Publishing,

15 min read
10 take-aways
Audio & text

What's inside?

Don't quit your job; transform it. Work you love may be waiting for you "right in your own backyard."

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Editorial Rating

7

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Recommendation

If you’re frustrated with your career or if you’ve been hopping from company to company looking for the perfect job, this book is a must-read. Most jobs, authors Joe Frodsham and Bill Gargiulo believe - perhaps overoptimistically - already offer the possibility of satisfying work. Frodsham and Gargiulo provide a step-by-step guide to finding the things you truly love to do - your "passions." Once you understand these deep personal needs, then you can retool your job to meet them. The authors caution against switching organizations except as a last resort. getAbstract.com recommends this book to perennial job-seekers. If you absorb its information and do the internal work it advises, perhaps you, too, can attain "career wealth" right where you are. Hint: "career wealth" is not the same thing as earning a lot of money, just a lot of satisfaction.

Summary

It’s Not Your Workplace, It’s You

Many people think they are not satisfied in their careers because they haven’t found the "right" place to work. Actually, the secret to career satisfaction, or "career wealth," is to discover what you love doing and to do it at your current company. Instead of job-hopping and career-shopping, stay put and discover your passion. "Navigate your career" within your current organization. You’ll be amazed at the opportunities you find when you begin to look at things differently.

Take Control of Your Career

Many people believe that the perfect job is one that produces promotions, money, titles, prestige and recognition - and that these external markers will lead to happiness. But time and again, people achieve the symbols of success and remain unhappy, unfulfilled and lost. Working at an unsatisfying job is harmful - it can damage your health and stress your relationships by causing depression, frustration and anger.

You can’t measure true career wealth with external symbols. Real career wealth is the feeling of happiness and satisfaction you get when you do a job well, make a difference and see results. It is about dedicating...

About the Authors

Joe Frodsham is corporate director of leadership and professional development at a major American corporation, where Bill Gargiulo is global director of talent management and organizational effectiveness.

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