Starting Over, Again and Again: What Global Careers Really Feel Like

But there’s something odder about the ambitious and well-paid architect, employed in the profession she always longed to join, who nonetheless finds herself treating every moment of her experience as worthwhile only in terms of bringing her closer to the completion of a project, so that she can move on to the next one, or move up the ranks, or move

The seminal change in the business from then to now is that a young person should view the career pyramid differently rather than traditionally. Put the point at the bottom where you are now (at the start of your career) and conceive your future as an expanding opportunity horizon where you can move laterally across the spectrum in search of an eve

Over coffee, I complained about this to my companion, who asked me to describe what I assumed was a chaotic career. It went something like this: Well, I studied psychology for a while and really loved it, but I didn’t want to be a psychologist. So I went into urban planning, because as far back as I can remember I’ve been interested in cities—how t

In business, a nomadic lifestyle - continually being reactive to environments, moving on when times get tough to an indeterminate location – almost always ends in failure.