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Building a successful career starts with you.
It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning 50 years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success.
If you read nothing else on effectively managing your career, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles...
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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 readers navigate the tricky territory of charting a rewarding career path. Whether...
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Position yourself for success.
Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you stay engaged, be productive, and continue to grow throughout your working life.
With insights from leading experts including Susan David, Joseph Badaracco, and Laura Morgan Roberts,...
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Navigate work successfully as a first-time parent.
Just when you're starting to figure out parenting, all of a sudden your leave time is over. You're excited to go back, but you already miss your baby like crazy, and you don't know how you're going to get through the first meeting without dozing off, let alone actually do your job.
Succeeding as a First-Time Parent will help you take a deep breath and get through it. Your first year as a working parent...
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Build your careers, your family, and your life-together.
When you're part of a two-career family, you manage the competing demands of your careers, child-rearing, and household chores along with your relationship with each other. Can you both chase your dreams, raise good citizens, make time for your hobbies and your health-and maintain a strong relationship?
Two-Career Families provides the expert advice and practical solutions you need to address...
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Make the connections that will help you succeed-and advance faster.
Networking doesn't stop once you've landed the job. Building a high-quality, diverse network is key to learning and growth, influencing others, and launching your ideas. But how do you move beyond small talk and cold emails to building a network that is strategic and effective, made up of authentic relationships?
The HBR Guide to Smarter Networking will give you the tools you need...
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La mayoría de los líderes consideran la "presencia ejecutiva" como un factor decisivo en las promociones y ascensos. Pero, ¿en qué consiste esa virtud tan ambigua y cómo se desarrolla?.
De la mano de especialistas de Harvard Business Review, en este libro se explica cómo es posible forjar el carisma, la seguridad y la determinación que proyectan los grandes líderes.
Tanto si estás realizando una exposición decisiva como si diriges una reunión...
8) Felicidad
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¿Cuál es la naturaleza de la felicidad humana?
¿Cómo podemos alcanzarla en el ámbito profesional?
¿Vale la pena perseguirla?
Este libro explora las respuestas a estas preguntas a través de las investigaciones que intentan averiguar, entre otras cosas, cómo se puede medir la felicidad, cuáles son los escenarios donde se desarrollan los comportamientos personales y cuáles son las técnicas de gestión que facilitan la felicidad en el lugar...
9) Mindfulness
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Entre los beneficios del mindfulness se incluyen la mejora del rendimiento y de la creatividad, el incremento de la conciencia de uno mismo y del carisma personal, además de conseguir una mayor tranquilidad. Este libro ofrece de un modo práctico los pasos que debes dar para desarrollar la atención plena en tu rutina profesional. También explica la ciencia que hay detrás del mindfulness y la razón de su eficacia, y advierte sobre las trampas...
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You're only one person-but you're not alone.
As a single parent, you know your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home (let alone major crises), you likely find yourself pulled in all directions, with many responsibilities and little support.
Doing It All as a Solo Parent offers you the help you need to lighten the load. Drawing on the wisdom...
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Have you taken time for yourself today?
Too many working parents focus solely on those around them-their families, their work, and a never-ending list of other commitments-only to lose sight of what they need themselves. But neglecting your own needs and wants can prevent you from being happy, healthy, and productive.
Taking Care of Yourself provides expert advice to help you identify what you value most at work and at home, make choices that align...
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Move ahead in your career-without leaving your family behind.
What happens when you're no longer setting goals and chasing dreams that work for you alone? When the career choices you make have ripple effects on your family? Can you uproot your household for an overseas assignment even if it's a surefire path to promotion? How do you make time for your kids-or yourself-if you work more than one job?
These are some of the questions you ask yourself...
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Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.
It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. But now you need a different mindset to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.
Getting It All Done can't teach you to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenges of succeeding at work while...
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Set yourself up for a successful transition.
Retirement is perhaps the greatest and most deeply personal career transition you'll ever make. Will you switch gears, slow down, or stop work entirely? Will you have the money, the good health, and the companionship you need to enjoy it?
The HBR Guide to Designing Your Retirement provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to take stock of your skills and interests and define retirement...
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You can have a successful career while being the father you want to be.
Gone are the days when fathers were expected to put work first and family last. Today, men worldwide are redefining fatherhood and finding greater fulfillment both at work and at home. But old ways die hard. Many managers prefer the status quo, and fathers aren't finding the support and flexibility they need from their employers. Dads still feel pressure to downplay or hide their...
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Manage the competing demands of working motherhood.
As a working mother you often draw the short straw. You carry most of the burden of caregiving and household chores-and your career suffers because of it. Bosses and coworkers assume that since you're focused on your family, you don't prioritize work. But choosing your job over your kids' extracurricular and school commitments means letting down the people you love most.
Advice for Working Moms can...
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