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US$22.00 SELF-MANAGEMENT Expert advice on professional growth from ADVANCING Harvard Business Review YOUR CAREER A D V A N Where do you want to go— ADVANCING C and how will you get there? I N YOUR G If you need the best practices and ideas for achieving Y CAR career growth and fulfillment—but don’t have time to find O them—this book is for you. Here are 11 inspiring and useful U perspectives, all in one place. R C This collection of HBR articles will help you: • Break out of a career rut A • Earn a spot on your company’s high-potential list • Find out what’s really holding you back R • Get the kind of mentoring that leads to a promotion EER E • Groom yourself for an external move • Turn the job you have into the job you want E • Crack the code of C-suite entry R • Take control of your career after being fired ISBN 978-1-4221-7223-0 90000 Get inspired. Stay informed. Join the discussion. 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Requests for permission should be directed to [email protected], or mailed to Permissions, Harvard Business School Publishing, 60 Harvard Way, Boston, Massachusetts 02163. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harvard business review on advancing your career. p. cm. — (Harvard business review paperback) ISBN 978-1-4221-7223-0 (alk. paper) 1. Career development. 2. Promotions. I. Harvard business review. HF5381.H277 2011 650.14—dc22 2011000137 97104 00 i-vi r1 sp 2/21/11 11:56 AM Page v Contents How Will You Measure Your Life? 1 Clayton M. Christensen Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want 17 Amy Wrzesniewski, Justin M. Berg, and Jane E. Dutton How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career 31 Herminia Ibarra Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies 57 Monika Hamori Are You a High Potential? 71 Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger, and Linda A. Hill Why You Didn’t Get That Promotion 89 John Beeson Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women 103 Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter, and Christine Silva Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change 119 Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams The Right Way to Be Fired 133 Laurence J. Stybel and Maryanne Peabody How to Protect Your Job in a Recession 159 Janet Banks and Diane Coutu How Leaders Create and Use Networks 171 Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter Index 193 97104 00 i-vi r1 sp 2/21/11 11:56 AM Page vi 97104 00 i-vi r1 sp 2/21/11 11:56 AM Page vii Harvard Business Review on ADVANCING YOUR CAREER 97104 00 i-vi r1 sp 2/21/11 11:56 AM Page viii 97104 01 001-016 r1 sp 2/21/11 11:56 AM Page 1 How Will You Measure Your Life? B by Clayton M. Christensen BEFORE I PUBLISHED The Innovator’s Dilemma,I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel. He had read one of my early papers about disruptive tech- nology, and he asked if I could talk to his direct reports and explain my research and what it implied for Intel. Excited, I flew to Silicon Valley and showed up at the appointed time, only to have Grove say, “Look, stuff has happened. We have only 10 minutes for you. Tell us what your model of disruption means for Intel.” I said that I couldn’t—that I needed a full 30 minutes to explain the model, because only with it as context would any comments about Intel make sense. Ten min- utes into my explanation, Grove interrupted: “Look, I’ve got your model. Just tell us what it means for Intel.” I insisted that I needed 10 more minutes to describe how the process of disruption had worked its way through a very different industry, steel, so that he and 1
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