Gathering of animals;: An unconventional history of the New York Zoological Society

Bridges, William

Harper&Row

Whether switching jobs or moving house, leaving school or retiring, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Most of us struggle through such periods. This classic book shows how making a successful transition lets you recognize and seize new opportunities.Transitions has helped hundreds of thousands of readers to cope with changes by providing a road map of the transition process. With the understanding born of experience, William Bridges takes us step by step through the three stages of transition:Endings. Recognize endings as opportunities as well as losses, and even celebrate them with rituals designed to open new doors.The Neutral Zone. In this seemingly unproductive time-out, we feel disconnected from the past and emotionally unconnected to the present. The most frightening stage of transition, the Neutral Zone is really an important time for reorientation.The New Beginning. A successful transition requires more than persevering: it means launching ne

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Parenting & Relationships

Da Capo Lifelong Books

”Stop looking for the right job,” career couselors now tell us. ”Start thinking of yourself as the head of a small business called 'You &amp; Co.,' and view employers as potential customers. That's the key to a successful career.” That all very well, but how? No one is better at explaining the new world of work better than William Bridges, inventor of the term ”You &amp; Co.” In Creating You &amp; Co., he provides workers with a practical guide to overcoming the employment trends illuminated in his bestsellers Managing Transitions and JobShift. By seeing beyond outdated notions of the job and learning to think as a business leader, you can find work that over the years will be both more fulfilling and more secure. Creating You &amp; Co. provides self-assessment tests that help you to identify your Desires, Abilities, Temperament, and Assets. This ”D.A.T.A.” is more than a window to what you like doing; it reveals your unique advantges in the work market. Other exercises lead you through the process of defining your ”product” and spotting your ”market.” By the end of this book, you'll think about your work in a new wayyou'll think like the CEO of You &amp; Co.As Bridges shows, true security comes not from clinging to a job, but from doing the work you're best at for the employers who need it. By learning that approach you can cement your value to your current employer, shape a new job for yourself, actually start a small company, or blaze your own path. No matter what shape your You &amp; Co. takes, we will all need to learn the Creating You &amp; Co. approach to prosper in the years ahead.

Creating You & Co

Business & Money

Business Culture

"Provides strategies for dealing with the shift away from 'good, steady jobs' to an era of temporary, free-lance, and consulting positions."--Detroit News The source of Fortune's widely discussed cover story "The End of the Job," JobShift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new employment realities and uncovers new opportunities. Read JobShift to understand how to generate secure work for yourself next year-and how we'll think about work for the next forty years.

Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs

Job Hunting & Careers

Every day the newspapers report more corporate mergers and restructuring. Every day thousands of lives are altered by these changes. Most managers and employees, however, do not have the experience to effectively work through such transitions. In Managing Transitions, William Bridges provides a clear understanding of what change does to employees and what employees in transition can do to an organization, and he shows how to minimize the distress and disruptions caused by change.Directed at managers and employees in today's corporations, where change is necessary to revitalize and improve corporate performance, Managing Transitions addresses the fact that it is people who have to carry out the change. It not only talks about what should be done, but also shows how to do it, giving managers practical ways to bring the people ”on board.” Armed with this new information, managers will look at future changes in a new way, no longer feeling anxious and hopeless, but rather looking at opportunities.Everybody talks about ”managing change” and ”resistance to change,” but Bridges is the first to talk about what is going on inside the people who have to make the change work. He is the first to provide any real sense of the emotional impact of change and what can be done to keep it from disrupting the entire organization. Bridges's years of experience helping organizations and individuals successfully take control of change has proven the need for specific, concrete guidelines for dealing with change. Managing Transitions provides these guidelines.

Managing Transitions: Making The Most Of Change

Management & Leadership

Describing recent trends in layoffs, restructuring, and temporary labor, the author of Managing Transitions states that the steady job is out of sync with companies of the future, and shows how workers can thrive in the coming business world. Tour.

Economics

Da Capo Press

Describes the problems that can be caused by sudden, unexpected change tells how to plan and carry out an effective transition, and discusses the importance of leadership

Surviving Corporate Transition: Rational Management in a World of Mergers, Start-Ups, Takeovers, Layoffs, Divestitures, Deregulation and New Technologies

DOUBLEDAY

”Stop looking for the right job,” career couselors now tell us. ”Start thinking of yourself as the head of a small business called 'You &amp; Co.,' and view employers as potential customers. That's the key to a successful career.” That all very well, but how?No one is better at explaining the new world of work better than William Bridges, inventor of the term ”You &amp; Co.” In Creating You &amp; Co., he provides workers with a practical guide to overcoming the employment trends illuminated in his bestsellers Managing Transitions and JobShift. By seeing beyond outdated notions of the job and learning to think as a business leader, you can find work that over the years will be both more fulfilling and more secure.Creating You &amp; Co. provides self-assessment tests that help you to identify your Desires, Abilities, Temperament, and Assets. This ”D.A.T.A.” is more than a window to what you like doing; it reveals your unique advantges in the work market. Other exercises lead you through the process of defining your ”product” and spotting your ”market.” By the end of this book, you'll think about your work in a new wayyou'll think like the CEO of You &amp; Co.As Bridges shows, true security comes not from clinging to a job, but from doing the work you're best at for the employers who need it. By learning that approach you can cement your value to your current employer, shape a new job for yourself, actually start a small company, or blaze your own path. No matter what shape your You &amp; Co. takes, we will all need to learn the Creating You &amp; Co. approach to prosper in the years ahead.

Creating You & Co.: Learn To Think Like The CEO Of Your Own Career

Twenty years ago Bill Bridges brought us Transitions, the perennial best seller that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with personal and professional upheaval, providing a practical road map of the natural transition cycle. Now, with a new understanding of the process born of a deep personal crisis, Bridges brings us The Way of Transition, a richly textured, deep map of the personal, professional, and emotional transformations that grow out of tragedy and crisis. Eloquently explaining the mechanics of transition through his own moving story, Bridges demonstrates how disillusionment, sorrow, or confusion can blossom into a time of incredible creativity and contentment, highlighting the profound significance and true value of endings in our lives. Instructive and inspiring, The Way of Transition, reveals the transformative power of life's disappointments, demonstrating how to harness them for personal rejuvenation.

The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments

Self-Help

William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest account of being in transition, this uncommonly wise and moving book is a richly textured map of the personal, professional, and emotional transformations that grow out of tragedy and crisis. Demonstrating how disillusionment, sorrow, or confusion can blossom into a time of incredible creativity and contentment, Bridges highlights the profound significance and value of endings in our lives.

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Gathering of animals;: An unconventional history of the New York Zoological Society

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

Creating You & Co

Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs

Managing Transitions: Making The Most Of Change

Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs

Surviving Corporate Transition: Rational Management in a World of Mergers, Start-Ups, Takeovers, Layoffs, Divestitures, Deregulation and New Technologies

Creating You & Co.: Learn To Think Like The CEO Of Your Own Career

The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments

The Way Of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments