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Capitalizing on Career Chaos:
Bringing Creativity & Purpose to Your Work & Life (2005)

Whether due to offshoring, bankruptcy, the quest for global competitiveness, or some other cause, chaos in organizations is real and radical and can create fear and uncertainty in the heart of even the most savvy and confident employee.

Looking inward, outward, forward, and beyond—and with a planned course of action—Capitalizing on Career Chaos delivers the tools and strategies to become an authentic, trailblazing pioneer who can thrive in this age of unprecedented change.

Helen Harkness draws on her work with more than 10,000 individuals and her nearly 30 years as a career management expert to present a timely process for regenerating, redirecting, or crafting a new career – from the inside out. Harkness’s easy-to-implement, four-step process shows how to look outward to match core instincts and talents with external realities; look forward to create a vision of the future; and look beyond to a specific course of action that will move us from visualization to the realization of our goals.

Books are $20.95 each. Shipping is included in the Continental US. Call to order with credit card: 972.278.4701.

Don't Stop The Career Clock :
Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century (1999)

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Don't Stop the Career Clock charts a clear course for rethinking our future and finding career fulfillment in later life, with exercises, self-assessments, and worksheets for each step along the way.

A clarion call for a new way to age and work. As legions of baby boomers close in on retirement age, this important new book outlines the steps to thriving as an older worker in a newly defined work world. Dispelling the stereotypes of aging that prevail in our culture, author Helen Harkness champions the attitudes needed to support a radical new approach to aging and working in the coming century.

With inspiring stories of people who created their most satisfying careers at an age when others were being "put out to pasture," Harkness shatters the myth that growing older equals biological, mental, psychological, and creative decline and encourages us instead to reset our career clocks.

Books or Audio CDs are $18.95. each. Shipping is included in the Continental US. Call to order with credit card: 972.278.4701.

The Career Chase:
Taking Creative Control in a Chaotic Age (1997)

Practical and inspiring, this revolutionary guidebook provides the tools for identifying common sources of career unrest, describes the twelve deadly myths that block or delay career change, offers a model for working through the chaos of change, and outlines the specific steps involved in every successful career change: self-assessment, exploration and research, decision making, and strategic action.

Change, transition, self-management.

More important than loyalty, more important than technical expertise, today's job and career market demands the ability to change, the flexibility to make transitions successfully, and a strong capacity for self-management. With such personal qualities as the cornerstone, you will be in a position to capitalize on the career opportunities that are ever-present, even in these times of seeming chaos.

Books are $19.95 each. Shipping is included in the Continental US. Call to order with credit card: 972.278.4701.