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Exploring power, dead-end work, careers in uncertain times, why there is no such thing as the ideal executive, how successful people become even more successful and strategies for shaping a working identity.

Dianne Jacobs | The Talent Advisors | Reading Circle | Series 5 | Exploring power, dead-end work, careers in uncertain times, why there is no such thing as the ideal executive, how successful people become even more successful and strategies for shaping a working identity.

Here is more information about the Series 7 selection of books and discussions.

7 Rules of Power: Surprising--But True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career (Matt Holt, June 2022) by Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer.

The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work (Simon & Schuster, May 2022) by Professors Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart.

This Working Life (Hardie Grant Books, February 2022) by Lisa Leong and Monique Ross.

The Ideal Executive (Adizes Institute, August 2004) by Dr. Ichak Adizes.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful (Profile Business; Main edition, June 2008) by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter.

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career (Harvard Business Review Press; Revised ed. edition, January 2004) by Prof. Herminia Ibarra.

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