November 2025
- Nov 21, 2025Work SkillsCareer Decision MakingHerminia Ibarra's longitudinal research on career changers, published in Working Identity in 2003, found the opposite of what planning advice assumes: people who switched successfully acted first in small ways, taking side projects and experimenting with new identities, then reflected. Those who spent months in self-reflection before acting were significantly less likely to transition successfully. Also covered: weighted decision matrices, regret minimization and pre-mortems.
- Nov 20, 2025Work SkillsNavigating Career Tradeoffs IntentionallyThe hours simply are not there, and most people who burn out never chose that allocation, they drifted into it one late night at a time. Naming the trade explicitly, with a horizon and a plan to rebalance, is a different act from drifting into the same schedule. The page treats money, learning, time, status, impact, optionality and security as currencies that do not freely convert, and covers depth versus breadth and the management move.
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