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Five barriers to career change — and how to overcome them

By Herminia Ibarra, Kendall Smith, and Neil Courtis, Harvard Business Review

Why does career change feel so hard? And what can people do to make it easier? 

Research: Setbacks can actually boost your career

Gloria Kutscher and Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Harvard Business Review

If you’ve hit a big pothole on the road to success, take heart. Research shows that setbacks can galvanise your career in unexpected ways that make you more successful. 

Preparing for your next career move

Thinking about your next career move can feel daunting, but there are ways to cope...

A six-step plan to prepare for any career setback

Octavia Goredema, Harvard Business Review

Revenue spirals, industry shifts, and legislative changes can have unexpected ripple effects on your career advancement. Developing a predetermined fallback plan allows you to proceed with a clear head if you’re faced with a career setback.

Don’t Focus on Your Job at the Expense of Your Career

Dorie Clark, Harvard Business Review

The gap between what we have to do today and where we see ourselves in the future can be vexing. We’d like to advance toward our goals, but we feel dragged down by responsibilities that seem banal or off-target for our eventual vision. In this piece, the author offers four strategies you can try so that you can...

How to make strategic career decisions, even in a crisis

HBR IdeaCast, Harvard Business Review, 28 September 2021

In this episode of HBR IdeaCast executive education professor and author Dorie Clark discusses the importance of making well-informed, strategic, career decisions. She offers advice on how to ignore social media distractions, balance priorities, cultivate patience, and…