- Title
Ground of Your Own Choosing: Winning Strategies for Finding & Creating Work
- Author
- Ryle, Beverly
- Publisher
- Shank Painter Publishing
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 1888959452
Curriculum and Classification
- Subject
- MainCurriculum
- Business Design
- SubCurriculum
- Business Development and Entrepreneurship
- Semester
- All
Abstract
Amazon.com: Everything has changed about work except how we go about finding it. Our reliance on the use of traditional job search techniques in a work environment that has dramatically changed is the equivalent of "fighting the last war" with disappointing, even disastrous, results. Most of us sense this, but we don't know what else to do. This book is a clear, concise guide to a new kind of work security, one that is not dependent on any particular job, but on your own capacity to generate work. It offers a compelling rationale for why it is necessary to change your thinking and provides practical steps, supported by real life stores, for taking action.
From the Author's Preface:
"Several years ago, I did a workshop for a group of Bentley College alumni. Right after we finished lunch, just before we started back again, someone expressed frustration with the inefficiency and wastefulness of traditional job-search practices, and I made the offhand remark, 'If I had my way, people would throw out their resumes and stop networking.'
"An electric charge went through the room. Thirty business professionals, some a few years out of college, others farther along in their careers, all of them well-versed in traditional job-search, came alive.
"Somebody had actually said out loud what they instinctively knew, that trying to find work the way we currently go about it is unproductive, frustrating, humiliating, and often downright awful.
A career expert was telling them that it was not only acceptable but also entirely appropriate for them to feel as they did, and it was as if they heaved a collective sigh of relief. 'Maybe it's not us,' they thought, 'maybe it's the methods themselves that aren't working.'
I wished I could have put aside the agenda I planned for the afternoon to pursue the subject with them. What I suspect would have happened is that they would have told me they follow traditional job-search practices because they don't know what else to do.
Not being able to answer the question, "What do I do instead?" is the reason people looking for work keep doing the same things and expecting different, less disappointing results.
This book was written to answer that question.
Reviews
Kaospilots reviews of the book. Please describe the book, why is it good or why is it bad (strength/weakness), what did the book do for you, and why do you recommend it. Plus of cause - you contact information so other people can discuss this with you and get more info if needed.
November Sky Freyss-Cole, Team 13
I'm reading this book that I think you should know about.
It's entitled "Ground of Your Own Choosing" and is written by Beverly Ryle. It puts many of the fundamental concepts that the KaosPilots is built upon in simple and accessible terms. I get the feeling when reading it that it would have been perfect to read second semester during the first year...and then again in the 3rd year! It approaches the subject of living your life and finding your life's work with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Anyway, I thought of you and figured I should send you a message. This would be a great one to have in the library, on the reading list and perhaps as "required reading". I bet it would be helpful for both team leaders and pilots in training.