Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World

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Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World offers a practical and tested framework with which to chart ones own path toward the future. The book will help interpret the key trends in the post-pandemic world including digitalization, geopoliticsand the looming climate emergency to find career options that are likely to be future proof aswell as deeply rewarding. The book is written for people who have left or lost their jobs as well asthose who feel that what they are doing is either not satisfying at some fundamental level or issomehow at risk given the changes going on in the world.

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The future is full of opportunity if you know where to look. Mike Rosenberg is a wise, pragmatic guide to the spectrum of career paths now opening upand how to find your own path by walking it. John Elkington, Founder and Chief Pollinator, Volans, and author of Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.

The world is full of enormous challenges which are also opportunities. Mike Rosenbergs book gives people of all ages insight into how to shape their career to find both purpose and opportunity in the changing world we are living in. Franz Heukamp, Dean, IESE Business School, Spain.

Unstable times affect professional careers and those who stubbornly stick to their old plan will findthemselves in a bad place. The quality of the answers Mike Rosenberg gives us is based on thequality of the questions he asks from the perspective of digital change, environmental influences andgeopolitical factors. Wolfgang Doell, Founder & Managing Director, Gain ManagementAdvisors, Germany.

Career management should be a continuous exercise that, as a road map, must bedetailed enough to be useful and updated enough to be relevant. Once again Mikehas mastered in this book the integration of his unique holistic vision and real lifeexperience gained at top institutions in strategy consulting, executive search and business education. Through the pages of this book, Mike helps those new to thework place and senior level executives reflect on their career and set a purposedriven personal and professional plan. Diego Esteban, Managing Director atRussel Reynolds, Singapore.

Mike Rosenberg in his book considers an issue which is important for any person ofany age, who would like to be successful, actual and in demand: how to plan, designand build up a career. The book is much broader than just how to find a job. Inparticular it discusses work-life balance, purpose and values, and bears in mind that we work to live not live to work. Andrei Sharanov, President, Skolkovo BusinessSchool, Moscow.

Many of us will remember the Covid-19 as a key turning point, where we feltcompelled to revisit what mattered the most, what purpose animated us, and whatcourse we should chart for ourselves. How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulentand Changing World provides the clues to approach this change, while navigating an uncertain environment. A must read with full of key learnings based on experience,and truly applicable to everyone, at every stage of a career. Vincent Petit, SeniorVice President, Energy Transition, Sustainability Re-search Institute.

COVID-19 and its aftermath have thrown the global economy and job market intochaos. Learning to Fly is a how-to guide on navigating the chaos, and findingmeaning and purpose at work along the way. It gives readers practical ideas andtools to manage their careers in a whole new way. Michelle Wallin, Journalist working for Communications Director at the Business School, Greg Burke.

Author Bio

Mike Rosenberg is a professor of the practice of management at IESE Business School in Barcelona where he lectures on strategy, geopolitics, and sustainability. Prior to his work in academia, Professor Rosenberg was Global Practice Leader and Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, the Executive Search Firm.