The Long View: Career Strategies to Start Strong, Reach High and Go Far

by Brian Fetherstonhaugh

The Chairman & CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide and career advisor extraordinaire, Brian Fetherstonhaugh, outlines the three stages of a long, successful work life and offers guidance to plan ahead and get the most out of each phase.
The world of careers is vastly different than it was just five years ago more choices, more competition, and relentless change in how we define work-life. It can be difficult to understand our options and plan for a prosperous future.
Where can you go for answers? Colleges may teach us academic and technical skills, and there are places to look for tips on how to write a resume or prep for a job interview. But is it enough?
Brian Fetherstonhaugh, CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide, understands this dilemma and how to navigate it. He believes we need more than tactics we need robust, road-tested strategies that combine old-school wisdom with new-school context so that we can flourish in the new professional reality. In The Long View, Fetherstonhaugh shows us the three distinct but interconnected stages of a career, and how we build fuel at every step along the way to create long-term success. The Long View teaches us new ways of finding jobs, new methods to build careers that last, and a new definition of work that embraces life-satisfaction and happiness.
The Long View offers highly practical exercises that challenge you to rethink how to assess your skills, invest your time and expand your personal network, and provides a framework for facing tough job decisions. With insights drawn from interviews with a variety of professionals who share both success stories and cautionary tales The Long View will help you establish your own path for overcoming obstacles and making the best choices for a long, accomplished, and rewarding career.
THE LONG VIEW is one of the most practical and comprehensive guides to a meaningful career that I have read. Whether you are just starting your search for a job or trying to get a career back on track, start by reading The Long View. Tom Rath, best-selling author of ARE YOU FULLY CHARGED?, EAT, MOVE, SLEEP, and STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
THE LONG VIEW is the career guide you ve been looking for forward-thinking advice from a seasoned business leader. Brian Fetherstonhaugh offers practical exercises, useful advice and deep insights into what a meaningful career looks and feels like. Susan Cain, co-founder of Quiet Revolution and New York Times bestselling author of QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can t Stop Talking"

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Self Help, Leadership

249 pages, Paperback

Published September 6, 2016

Reviews

[Archit · Rating 4 out of 5]

A scrupulous account of deliberately creating a career trajectory for yourself; it is a no-frills guide on how to create a springboard for your career to scale greater heights.

Key insights:
Part 1 – Principles & Tools
• Most people treat career like a sprint, rather than a marathon
• How to build a career plan – 5 elements:
o Career can be divided into 3 stages, lasting 15 years each
o Career fuel – 3 parts – TRANSPORTABLE SKILLS, MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCES AND ENDURING RELATIONSHIPS
o Skillful investment of time
o Careers do not move in a linear fashion
o Career is not merely a job, it’s a part of life
• Bring the career plan to life
o Do the Career Math
o Complete a Career Inventory – ask 4 main questions
 Learning
 Impact
 Fun
 Reward
o Take the 100-hour test and complete a personal time portfolio
o Use the Career Path Navigator
o Future-proof your career
• Stage 1 – Explore & heal weaknesses – take public speaking/ improv classes, get personal leadership coaching
• Stage 2 – define a sweet spot, set a high ambition
• Stage 3 – succession planning, consultancy and paid advisory boards, entrepreneurship, teaching, community
• Transportable skills –
o Problem Solving
o Persuasive communication + Storytelling
o Getting things done
o Becoming a talent magnet
o Giving and asking for help
o EQ
o Create a talent ledger (people you have groomed)
• Meaningful experiences – work in e-commerce at least once
• Enduring relationships
• Career math – social currency, Ebay factor (if you were to be bid on Ebay, what value would people place on you)
• You need to put your choices into a bigger context. I’ve put the
Career Path Navigator at the end of this section on tools
because I think you need to do some of the other groundwork
first. Do some career math to get in the right frame of mind.
Think about the three big stages to remind yourself where you
are in your long career journey. Do a career inventory and size
up your current career ecosystem to take stock of where you
stand with your skills and relationships. Contemplate your
time portfolio and see what kind of balance seems to make
sense in your career and life. Now you’re ready to make some
enlightened decisions.
• In some fields and for some individuals, there is no question
that a postgraduate degree can often add extra value. The
reasons to do a Masters degree are very personal. You need to
decide what special value it will bring to your career. Will it:
o Add transportable skills you do not currently possess?
o Help you re-invent yourself and change the vector of your career?
o Establish new personal connections and expand your career ecosystem?
o Add an important credential that you do not currently have?
o Accelerate your process of discovery—to test a hypothesis about what you’re actually good at and love to do?

Part 2 – through the stages
• As Adam Grant says in Give and Take: “I wish people had
more realistic expectations early on in their careers.” The
whole first stage—often up to fifteen years—is a process of
learning and discovery, of trial and error. It is not about finding
some mythical job that you adore everyday. It is about finding
out what you are good at, what you are bad at, what you love
to do and what you hate. Stage One is not just about passively
aging and “getting more seasoning” like some kind of steak. It
is highly active and purposeful.

Some good questions people have asked me:
What’s different about this industry?
What do you like/dislike about your job?
What kinds of skills are required to succeed in your
business?
How did you get your job?
What is the culture of your company, and how is it
different from others?
How do people today get into your industry? (Could be
different from the past)
What challenges keep you awake at night?

In his TEDx talk, author Robert Greene counsels us to be
patient and open during the early years of our careers. The
early years should be devoted to building competencies,
experiences, and relationships. Greene observes that it
invariably takes ten trials and nine errors to reach one success.
It takes experimentation to identify a true passion, path, or
purpose. He urges people early in their careers to tune in to
what opportunities are presenting themselves to you, and also
how you react—what you pay attention to, where you put your
energy, which voices you listen to, and what you choose to
read

Whether you pursue a predominantly entrepreneurial or
corporate pathway, use Stage One to establish good career
habits and take on fuel. The most important thing is to become
“the brand manager of you.” Whether you like it or not,
employers constantly shop for talent. And how you treat your
career will determine whether you are on the menu when they
go shopping. We can learn a lot from how brands are built. It
is not a trick or shortcut. Leading brands are built on quality
ingredients and crafted with care.

As your own personal brand manager, use Stage One to
create the building blocks and habits for a successful career.
Get informed, get engaged, become an expert in something,
learn to communicate effectively, build eminence, seek
feedback, and build value.
For many employees, the only orientation they get is a few
hours with the HR department going over the travel and
entertainment policy and maybe a bit of company history. If
you are serious about your career, this is not enough. Learn
what makes your company tick: where it came from, what it
stands for, how it makes its money, who the key people are,
and where it is going. If you don’t get answers to these
questions as part of your company’s normal indoctrination,
make it your business to find out in the first hundred days. Do
your homework. Read the company’s annual report, or better
yet, an outside analyst’s assessment of the company. Ask both
old-timers and rising stars to tell you the inside scoop on your
company over a cup of coffee. Get engaged by joining a club,
team, or professional network in the firm. Volunteer to help
with a company event, and do it well. Slowly begin to build
your career ecosystem of contacts, communities, critical
colleagues, and champions.

Stage 2 – a reference to Robert Greene’s Mastery

As you proceed through Stage Two, you should be constantly
fine-tuning, and sometimes overhauling your career direction.
Periodically, we need to make sure we’re on the right path.
Ask yourself those four critical career health questions
Learning—Am I accumulating new skills, experiences
and relationships to help me grow?
Impact—Am I making a difference to individuals, to
the company and perhaps even to society at large?
Fun—Is my career generally a source of positive
energy and joy in my life?
Reward—Am I building economic value?

Stage 3 - The world ahead will be littered
with grumpy, late-career victims. Don’t be one of them.
Go global

The How of Happiness outlines a dozen “evidence-based
happiness-increasing strategies whose practice is supported by
scientific research.” These include:
Expressing Gratitude
Cultivating Optimism
Avoiding Overthinking and Social Comparison
Practicing Acts of Kindness
Nurturing Social Relationships
Developing Strategies for Coping
Learning to Forgive
Increasing Flow Experiences
Savoring Life’s Joys
Committing to Your Goals
Practicing Religion and Spirituality
Taking Care of Your Body

[Vanessa Princessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book thanks to Blinkist:

The key message in this book:

We often underestimate how long a career is and miss out on the big picture by focusing on short-term successes. We can fix this short-sightedness by recognizing the long journey that constitutes a successful career and equipping ourselves with the right skills and relevant experiences to attain long-term satisfaction.

Actionable Advice

Ask your boss and colleagues for feedback.

If your company doesn’t offer any performance reviews, you might want to speak with your boss and suggest that these start taking place on a regular basis. Receiving feedback from your superiors and peers is a great way to learn about your strengths and weaknesses, which, in turn, will help you improve your performance.

[Jung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Learn how to plan for a long and successful career.

If you ran a marathon, how would you pace yourself? Well, provided that you hope to cross the finish line before collapsing from exhaustion, you would start out at a moderate speed and save some energy to give your all on the home stretch.

A marathon is a long and demanding challenge, which may make you want to avoid it in the first place. What you may not realize, however, is that you have a marathon lying ahead of you – or perhaps you’re already running it now. This marathon is your career journey, and you may well be going at the wrong speed.

This book will remind you how long a typical career path is. You will learn about the different stages of your career and which strategy you should apply in each of the stages. Find out how to develop your skills and see what it takes to succeed in the rapidly changing working world of today.

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Job expectations are changing, so we need to rethink how we build our careers.

When you think of your dream job, what do you see? How important is it that your work is appreciated and rewarded? Do you want to be able to learn, have fun and grow as you go along?

These are the kind of questions that The Futures Company asked in 2015 when they tried to get to the bottom of what Americans consider a fulfilling career today.

What they found was that people want a combination of financial success and happiness.

Their poll found that 70 percent of people will choose happiness over financial perks when making career decisions; at the same time, however, 86 percent chose money as the most important factor overall.

This tells us that financial success is important, but ideally, this money won’t come at the expense of happiness or a healthy work-life balance.

As a result, we are seeing an increase in flexible work schedules, with more part-time roles, as well as freelance jobs, work-from-home opportunities and job-sharing offers. All of these are now viable alternatives to the traditional nine-to-five job.

So the question now becomes: how can I put together the right strategy to build a flexible, fulfilling and balanced career?

The answer to this lies in taking all the aspects of your life into consideration and emerging with a path that allows you to be successful without sacrificing important things like family, friends and health.

After all, as career and motivation experts like Dan Pink and Tom Rath point out, a happy work life directly translates into higher productivity, better health and increased satisfaction.

In the chapters that follow, we’ll take a closer look at the tools we need to create a healthy work-life balance and still have a successful career.

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We need a new career model that is built around long-term success.

Would you rather be given a dollar today or be able to save two dollars next month? Many of us would choose the first option, and we tend to make similar choices when it comes to our career by focusing on immediate rewards over long-term success.

However, if you are serious about securing a fulfilling career, you’ll eventually need to look at things from a long-term perspective.

After all, a career path covers a very long period of time, and the average US employee will spend more than 100,000 hours at work. This is more time than we’ll spend sleeping, and even when we’re not at work, we’re often thinking or worrying about it.

But most people come at their careers from the wrong angle by only considering how to succeed as quickly as possible, rather than planning things out for the long term.

There’s a saying that your career should be thought of as a marathon, not a sprint. And every marathon runner knows that they can’t start off running at full speed, or else they’ll never make it to the finish line.

Much the same way, it’s important to consider that the average retirement age is 65, so you need to have the right mindset for planning that far ahead. This implies keeping important aspects in mind, such as your education, networking and your and your family’s happiness.

Accumulating wealth is important, but keep in mind that most of this happens later in life.

According to the Survey of Consumer Finances, 85 to 90 percent of your personal wealth will likely be accumulated after your fortieth birthday.

Until then, it’s best to take your time and figure out what you really like doing and how you can become an expert in your field. This way, you won’t be stuck doing something you hate for the next 45 years.

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Prepare for a lasting career with a varied skill set and experiences.

There’s an old adage that says good things come in threes, and this applies to the three best ways you can spend your time in order to help create opportunities at any stage in your career.

These three pillars are transferable skills, meaningful experiences and enduring relationships.

So, let’s begin with the first of these and start building a useful skill set.

To understand how important your skills are, picture being 40 years old, losing your job and being forced to start all over again on your own. For this scenario to work out, you’ll need a strong set of talents, which is why you should spend your twenties and thirties gaining skills.

Now, the best ones to have are transferable skills, which can be applied to a variety of different jobs. You can get these by picking up academic degrees, foreign languages and computer skills, as well as more personal characteristics like communication skills and emotional intelligence.

Having strong and persuasive communication skills is an excellent trait for any job, whether you’re in sales or a political activist trying to win people over. No matter what, this is an essential skill for success.

These are especially important nowadays since the modern job market is unpredictable and constantly changing, so having transferable talents gives you a clear advantage.

Now, while you’re collecting skills, you should also be working in different environments in order to build meaningful experiences.

People who spend their career in one environment probably know how to do one thing efficiently but get overwhelmed when confronted with something out of the ordinary.

With a diverse job history, you’ll improve your decision-making skills by picking up different perspectives, which will make you more appealing to potential employers.

So take chances and move from a corporate environment into an entrepreneurial one that might provide the opportunity to launch a new brand from the ground up. Or perhaps work abroad for a while. Either way, don’t be afraid to fail, as failure also comes with important lessons.

Next up, we’ll look at enduring relationships.

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Strong contacts are valuable to a successful career.

Now, let’s look at that third category of time well spent: enduring relationships.

Whether you know it or not, work relationships offer the biggest source of support for your career, because no matter what field you’re in, the smartest and most successful people all got there with advice from others.

The best relationships you can form all fall into one of four levels:

The first level is your basic contacts, which covers everyone who’s ever entered your life.

These are unfiltered connections that include all your social network platforms, including e-mail, LinkedIn and Facebook contacts, as well as Twitter and Instagram followers.

These might not be the strongest connections, but they’re useful for sharing a message, such as the launch of a new product, with as many people as possible.

However, if you want one of these contacts to take action on your behalf, you’ll have to raise them to one of the following levels.

The second level contains the experts, who are people that carry specific knowledge and have access to certain information that could one day be the solution to a major problem. It’s important to maintain a good relationship here, which you can do by readily offering them your own expertise.

At the third level are the critical colleagues, which include your boss and other people who have the most impact on your career success. They might be the deciding factor in promotions and pay raises, and are largely responsible for your general happiness at work.

Finally, the fourth level contains the champions, such as your mentors and the small number of people who are there to offer support and advice. These might include a former professor or colleague who can provide a good reference for you. Naturally, these are people who should receive regular appreciation and goodwill.

Now that you have them in order, it’s good to regularly check in and identify your key contacts. And it’s always good to spend the most time with those who make you feel intelligent, stronger and more able to conquer your career goals.

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Your first career stage is about self-improvement and making connections.

Careers last an average of 45 years, which is such a long time that it can be helpful to think of it in three separate stages, each of them lasting for about 15 years.

The first stage is all about getting yourself in the game, so this includes putting together a plan for your job search and building connections to land that first gig.

Creating a spreadsheet can be useful, as you can fill in the first column with around 20 different companies that you would be interested in working for. Then, start researching these businesses and try to find contacts that can help you get your foot in the door.

LinkedIn can be a good tool for establishing these contacts, as can your alumni network, which might contain someone who works at one of these companies.

Once you find a connection, send a short e-mail, along with your resume, to see if they’d be willing to spend 15 to 20 minutes talking about their job.

A short phone call will give you the chance to find out what skills the company is looking for, what the company culture is like and what your contact likes and dislikes about the job.

In job hunting, having a connection within the company always provides a huge advantage and increases your chances of getting that first interview and landing the job.

This first stage is also a time to discover what you are good at and improving these skills.

Discovering what you are good at can be as simple as creating a list of what you enjoy and don’t enjoy doing.

No matter what, the 15 years of the first stage in your career should always be about finding ways to continue accumulating knowledge, better understand your strengths and overcome your weaknesses.

Everyone has weaknesses, such as public speaking, for instance, which can be improved by taking a class to learn different tips and tricks for making yourself comfortable in front of others.

The main goal here is to lay a solid foundation to build upon during the next two stages.

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The second stage of a career is the time to find your sweet spot and build a solid team.

Just as stage one is about finding what you’re good at, stage two is about becoming an expert at it by building upon your core strengths and making sure you stand out from the rest.

A great way to set yourself apart is to find your “sweet spot,” which is the intersection between what you are good at, what you love doing and which service you can provide the world.

So, if you are a talented communicator, you might focus your time and energy on building a reputation as being the best public speaker in your company.

Or, if you are a creative genius, work at becoming the company’s visionary and go-to person for innovative ideas. Whatever it is that you’re good at, highlight it and make sure others recognize it as well.

During this second 15-year stage in your career, you should be familiar with your weaknesses as well as your strengths. You can use this information to your advantage by building a strong team that contains people with skills that complement one another.

No one is perfect, so use this time to surround yourself with teammates that can compensate for the areas that aren’t your strongest.

Maybe those public speaking classes still didn’t make you a master of delivering a sales pitch to potential investors – so keep an eye out for the person that is great at selling ideas and winning people over.

During the second stage, you can put together all the pieces you need to sell your expertise as something that could benefit any company. In the next and final chapter, we’ll find out how everything comes together in the third stage.

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The third stage of a career is about planning the best ways for you to pass along your knowledge.

Remarkably, the average life expectancy for those in first-world countries has grown by 30 years over the past century, which means a person’s career can last longer than it ever has before.

But there are still preparations that need to be made, which is why the third stage of your career is all about setting the stage to pass your expertise on to the next generation.

For many people, work provides a purpose and motivation to get up in the morning, while also being a source of satisfaction. As such, reaching retirement age isn’t everyone’s idea of a blessing.

But if you plan ahead, you can still pass the torch on to others and maintain a sense of contribution and value.

Succession is one of the most popular ways to go about this, as it ensures your company is prepared and can seamlessly transition from one leader to the next.

The formal way to set up a succession is to write everything out in documents that detail all your responsibilities, contacts, ongoing projects and the long-term goals you have for the company.

Another way is to have internal training and mentoring sessions at the company to share your knowledge and all the best practices that you’ve developed over the years. These sessions can even be recorded and stored using programs like Google Hangouts.

Depending on your area and depth of knowledge, your third stage could include time spent teaching a college course or perhaps offering classes in your neighborhood to help people of all ages learn a new skill.

But just because this is the final stage in your career, it doesn’t mean you should stop learning.

Things are changing quickly, especially in the business world, and it’s important to stay up-to-date on all the latest developments if your expertise is going to stay relevant. If you work in marketing, you can’t ignore emerging topics like e-commerce and marketing automation.

So, use your mentoring sessions with the younger generation to both pass on knowledge and stay informed on current topics. This way, the final stage of your career can be one of respect and personal accomplishment.

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We often underestimate how long a career is and miss out on the big picture by focusing on short-term successes. We can fix this short-sightedness by recognizing the long journey that constitutes a successful career and equipping ourselves with the right skills and relevant experiences to attain long-term satisfaction.

Actionable Advice

Ask your boss and colleagues for feedback.

If your company doesn’t offer any performance reviews, you might want to speak with your boss and suggest that these start taking place on a regular basis. Receiving feedback from your superiors and peers is a great way to learn about your strengths and weaknesses, which, in turn, will help you improve your performance.

[Matt Bucklin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m glad I read this between the 1st and 2nd stages of my career.

[Weiping · Rating 4 out of 5]

这本书还不错，告诉你职业生涯是个马拉松长跑，而不是短程冲刺比赛。大多数人都是在自己50到60岁才开始积累自己人生的大部分财富，在这之前积累下来的比例并不是很高。所以问题在于对于职业生涯不要太短视，前期不要纠结于那一点点薪水的差别，因为你在未来赚到的数量级会跟年轻时不同，应该在最初的15年先进行学习和积累，补短板，到中年开始再慢慢发挥自己的长处。重点在于，你要是中途退场，就玩完了，你得坚持往后慢慢爬……

[Zhijing Jin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Think of it as a marathon, e.g., ~60 years long instead of 20 years long.

1) Career fuel
a) Long-term social networks (it is a small world)
b) Transferrable ability:
- Problem-solving skills
- Persuasion and obtaining trust
- Execution
- Emotional intelligence
c) Meaningful experiences

2) Three stages of career:
a) Exploration: Learn what you are good at. Experiment. Collect information. Cultivate your skills.
b) Strategize: Contemplate what am I good at, what do I want, how can I do that. Plan a good strategy.
c) Sustainability: Plan for your elderly time. Think about what to harvest when you are old.

3) Work-life balance:
- Don't be afraid of having children. You can do it :). In the meantime, use the childcare service.
- Good communication with family.
- HEALTH: eat, sleep, exercise!

[Synthia Salomon · Rating 4 out of 5]

“We often underestimate how long a career is and miss out on the big picture by focusing on short-term successes. We can fix this short-sightedness by recognizing the long journey that constitutes a successful career and equipping ourselves with the right skills and relevant experiences to attain long-term satisfaction.

Actionable Advice

Ask your boss and colleagues for feedback.

If your company doesn’t offer any performance reviews, you might want to speak with your boss and suggest that these start taking place on a regular basis. Receiving feedback from your superiors and peers is a great way to learn about your strengths and weaknesses, which, in turn, will help you improve your performance.”

[Lili · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could have not started with a better book for the year of 2024!
If you are looking for some motivation and inspiration, this book covers a wide range of topics from success to failure, and how to lift yourself up with tremendous professional and personal tips.
I found the author very transparent, direct and humorous! He certainly didn't write what people wanted to hear. He provided a solid insight on how to start strong, reach high and go far in achieving your career dreams.
By far, the most useful self-help book I've ever read!

[Dunstan Ayodele · Rating 4 out of 5]

During an era of shorter career spans, it helps to understand the average length of your career, the different stages and learning appropriate strategies to succeed at each step of the journey. What makes you happy? How do you achieve work-life integration? And what is your long-term view of success are some of the questions Brian tackles in this book.

The Long View is your go-to career strategy guide.

[Krzysztof Adam Witalewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the only relevant book I could easily find not on how to chose a career but how to plan and develop it in the long term. And it was good enough - the examples are a bit too many and too lengthy but overall the book is definitely worth reading and provides a good framework for assessment and planning

[Neil Pasricha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Remember that speech about how “in the future” you are going to have ten jobs instead of working at IBM for fifty years and you will need constant retraining instead of grabbing a degree and sitting on it? This book reads like an updated view of that speech. It’s somehow simultaneously brand new and obsolete. Skip it.

[Grace Chen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my second read and it is still very good for career reflection.

It is very interesting how different it feels from the first read as it very distinctively tracks my maturity, although later of it still sounds like a mystery to me.

I will try to guide myself with the advice here and come back to it next year for re-evaluation.

[Tressa · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Long View had some interesting tips.  I do feel that this book is geared more towards executives and the advice is fairly general.  While I’m not sure how helpful the suggestions in the book are for me, I did like the book.

[Chirag · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read for those looking to take a step back and look at their careers. I think this book has a lot of great advice and tools for supercharging your career journey. Worth reading multiple times throughout your career.

[Amy Wang · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't find that I could apply some of these strategies to my life at the current moment but the book still provided insightful tips and worksheets that I feel will be quite useful in the future for me.

[Naveen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really opened my eyes to how long a career is. It also reinforced to me that the first third of my career should be spent networking, developing skills (both social and technical), and taking risks.

[Siyu Wu · Rating 4 out of 5]

good career advice book - It gives practical tips for different career stages. For someone like me just starting out, I find the stage 1 advice very helpful — thinking long-term, seeing the first 15 years as a learning process, and gaining the "fuels". will def read it again in a decade or two!

[Tor · Rating 4 out of 5]

The key is: Transferable skills, meaningful experiences and enduring relationships.

[Nan · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's always easier said than done. How to get out of comfort zone is the problem...

[Y · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not that impressive. Some suggestions on dividing the 40-year long career into 3 stages and optimize for different goals.

[Guozhang Chen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually, it can be boiled down to 1000 words.

[Sundance · Rating 5 out of 5]

was personally recommended to me and I ended up passing this book along to another.

[Kathleen Messmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting take on how you should organize and run your work life. Read it.

[Josie · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you haven’t read much on careers then this book could be for you. It doesn’t offer anything new to the market, relabelled material which has already be written in the careers field.

[Bonnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Transportable skills, meaningful experiences and enduring relationships

[Jerry Luan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the perspective that career is a multi decades long game. However, most of the discussion is too shadow and poorly organized.

[Justin Carter · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were a few good tips in here but nothing ground breaking. It was kind of a typical self help book written by a CEO.

[Rachel S · Rating 3 out of 5]

Career is divided into 3 parts

[Gordon Ryoo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was quite possibly the most helpful book I've read on navigating a career.

[Kien Trung · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good self help book. It gives a good overview of career stages.