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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

922: How to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career with Herminia Ibarra

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Decisions, Interview, Selfhelp, Fun, Speaking, Education, Careers, Skills, Money, Training, Meaning, Career, Thinking, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Success, Collaboration, Winning, Self-improvement, Mockaitis, Writing, Development, Wins

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Herminia Ibarra shares counter-intuitive perspectives on how to make successful career transitions. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How to craft and execute your “identity experiments.”

2) How to figure out your next best option in two questions. 

3) How to reach out and build your network . 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep922 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT HERMINIA — 

Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD and Harvard Business School faculties.

An authority on leadership and career development, Thinkers 50 ranks Herminia among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, a Fellow of the British Academy, and the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice.

Herminia is the author of two bestselling books, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity.  

A native of Cuba, Herminia received her MA and PhD from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow.

 

• Book: Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career 

• LinkedIn: Herminia Ibarra 

• Website: HerminiaIbarra.com 

• X: : @HerminiaIbarra 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.0

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete Makaitas.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to episode 922 with Hermione Ibarra.

0:23.0

Hermione has fantastic wisdom on how you can think through making a career transition wisely

0:29.0

and not have a painful sensation of regret like, oops, should not have done that.

0:34.0

Or, oops, really should have done that.

0:36.0

And I'm stuck with the lingering sense of what could have been for the rest of your life.

0:42.0

So you'll learn one, how to craft, execute your identity experiments.

0:45.0

Two, how to figure out your next best option in just two questions.

0:49.0

And three, how to reach out and build your network.

0:52.0

So if you want to check out the show notes of the transcript or the links to items that we reference here,

0:55.0

please visit us at awesome at your job.com slash ep921 and check out some of our resources

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like our gold nugget email summaries.

1:02.0

And here's a bit about Hermione.

1:04.0

Hermione Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School.

1:09.0

And prior to joining London Business School, she served on the Inseod and Harvard Business School faculties.

1:13.0

She's an authority on leadership and career development and thinkers 50 ranks her among the top management thinkers in the world.

1:19.0

She's a member of the World Economic Forum's expert network.

1:22.0

A judge for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award at Fellow of the British Academy

1:27.0

in the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management's Scholar Practitioner Award for her researches contribution to management practice.

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