A Career Is a Promise

A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose, fulfillment, and success.

No matter your field of interest, A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose, fulfillment, and success. Robin Landa, one of the world's leading experts on creativity and idea generation, reveals practical strategies that will help you identify a career worthy of your intelligence, aptitudes, and time.

Much more than a how-to guide, the roadmaps, prompts, inner directed questions, and self-assessment tools will help you discover what most excites you professionally, how to set worthwhile career goals, find purpose in your career, achieve success, lead with compassion, find fulfillment, secure mentors and sponsors, and enhance your creative thinking to best compete in a global marketplace.

Most of us don't spend adequate time thinking about what ignites our souls and makes careers roar-well enough to forge a fruitful and satisfying career path. When you spend more than one third of your life working, your career should hold promise. A career is a promise you make to yourself.

Autorentext

Robin Landa is a distinguished professor at Kean University and a globally recognized creativity and ideation expert. She is a bestselling author of books on idea generation, creativity, branding, advertising, and design. She has won numerous awards, and The Carnegie Foundation counts her among the "Great Teachers of Our Time." She is the author of twenty-five books, including Graphic Design Solutions, 6th ed., Strategic Creativity, and The New Art of Ideas. Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, and Fast Company, among others, have published her articles. Through her teaching, writing, mentoring, and presentations, Landa has had a profound impact on thousands of careers, inspiring and educating countless creative professionals, CCOs, and CMOs, helping to shape thousands of successful careers.

Klappentext

A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose, fulfillment, and success.

Zusammenfassung
A Career is a Promise offers a proven framework for finding purpose, fulfillment, and success.

Inhalt

Foreword - Dr. Heidi K. Gardner. Introduction. Chapter 1: A Career By Design. Chapter 2: Finding Purpose. Chapter 3: Setting Your Goals. Chapter 4: The Function of Goals. Chapter 5: Cultivating Cultural Intelligence. Chapter 6: Ensuring Success: Mentors & Sponsors. Chapter 7: The Leader Within You. Chapter 8: Finding Fulfilment