The Many Lives of Work: Rethinking Career Change in the Age of Longevity

About this book

'In an era defined by turbulence and unpredictability, this book offers an antidote to the turmoil.' - Thomas J. DeLong, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School 'Honest, practical, and deeply human . . . A must read.' - Walter Susini, Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi School of Management, author of Green Don't Sell and Bullsh*t.inc 'A powerful guide to navigating career transitions.' - Boris Groysberg, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the award-winning Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance 'A highly relevant and inspiring read for anyone thinking about the next chapter of their professional life.' - Beatrice Guillaume Grabisch, BCG Senior Advisor and Former Nestl Executive Board Member for HR and Business Services 'Essential reading for all of us.' - Rawi Abdelal, Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School and Emma Bloomberg, Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Longer lives call for a new way of thinking about careers. We're living and working longer than any generation before us, yet our careers are still shaped by an old model: choose a path, progress through it, retire. What happens when a path that once fit no longer does? The Many Lives of Work is for experienced professionals navigating career change, career transition, and reinvention in midlife and beyond - whether you're questioning your current path, considering a second career, exploring a portfolio career or simply asking what comes next. At its heart is the perennial career framework: a new model for longer working lives in which careers aren't straight lines but have seasons - growth, reflection, experimentation, renewal, reinvention. Drawing on research, real-world stories, and practical exercises, The Many Lives of Work offers a structured process to rethink your professional identity, reconnect with your skills and sense of meaning and test new possibilities - so you can shape a working life that keeps evolving with you. This isn't about quitting your job or starting over. It's about approaching career reinvention in the age of longevity with greater clarity, agency and possibility. Your work can have many lives.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781918191776

Publisher

Whitefox Publishing Ltd

Published

October 15, 2026

Pages

222

Weight

11.2 oz

Subject

Business & Economics