Mid-Career Tag

8 Ways to Grow your Career Sustainably

Careers of the 21st century are no longer linear. Therefore the idea of career growth in today’s times cannot be linear too. Career growth is not only an upward movement in careers, it has multiple other meanings and markers. What are some of these markers and...

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7 Career Sins

Are You Guilty Of Any Of These 7 Career Sins?

Movies and stories – they often imitate real life and sometimes they can be powerful analogies to explore themes in real life. Many of you may have seen the classic, intensely dark psychological thriller SEVEN. Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed...

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Re-Invent Yourself for the Future of Work (Part 1)

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on preparing for the Future of Work, Transitions and Re-inventing oneself.  If there’s one phrase which has caught the imagination of people from every walk of life - students, professionals, CEOs, policymakers, entrepreneurs, in the last couple...

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DESIGNING CAREERS

Applying Design Thinking To Designing Careers

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” —Herbert Alexander Simon, Nobel Prize laureate (1969) Design thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation, the key word being human. In today’s VUCA world, with tremendous disruption to the business and technological...

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Yoga and Mid Career Transitions

Scene at 7.00 a.m. in a condominium in Gurgaon: Men and women often sporting Decathlon tees, Fitbit bands and a wide assortment of earphones, are running, walking, kick-boxing, doing interval training. Some of the older folk are in small groups, practising pranayama and yoga asanas....

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