Career Transitions

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Do you want to shake up your career? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Whitney Johnson, the author of “Disrupt Yourself.” They talk through what to do when you’ve trained for one career and long for another, when you reenter the workforce after a long gap, and when you want to move into management.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.6	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.7	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.2	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.5	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.1	We can do something about them.
0:25.7	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.7	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights
0:32.9	from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:42.5	Today we're talking about career transitions, and here to talk through your questions about that is Whitney Johnson.
0:44.1	She's the author of Disrupt Yourself, putting the power of disruptive innovation to work.
0:48.5	Whitney, thanks so much for being on the show.
0:50.4	Thank you for having me, Allison.
0:52.0	So I know that you have had a lot of transitions in your own career. Talk to us a little bit about you. Oh, yes, indeed, I have. So here I am. I'm working on Wall Street. It's 2005. I'm at the top of my game. I'm making a lot of money. I'm institutional investor ranked. And I go into my boss and I say to her, I'm going to
1:12.2	leave. And she said, are you out of your mind? Like, this is the best job ever. Why would you
1:19.1	leave this? And I decided to become an entrepreneur. Eventually co-founded an investment firm
1:24.4	where we were investing in disruptive stocks, both early stage
1:29.3	and publicly traded securities.
1:31.7	Whitney, what's the biggest misconception about career transitions?
1:35.4	I think the biggest misconception is that when we look back on it, it looks very, very
1:41.1	linear.
1:41.9	And yet the reality is you go up and then you step back.
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