Boundless potential : transform your brain, unleash your talents, reinvent your work in midlife and beyond / Mark S. Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Mark S., 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midlife crisis.

Vocational guidance.

Middle-aged persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( 1 v.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Transform your brain, unleash your talents, reinvent your work in midlife and beyond

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

There's no better time than now to remake your career and life Neuroscience research reveals that creativity spikes in our later years—making midlife an ideal time to change professions. This breakthrough career-reinvention guide shows workers in their forties and over how to leverage this newfound potential. Boundless Potential empowers you with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start anything from a new entrepreneurial venture to a new career. Using case studies, interviews, and revelations from cutting-edge research, it offers a blueprint for personal and work reinvention in midlife and a glimpse of the true lifelong potential of the human mind. Mark S. Walton is a professor of leadership in the U.S. Navy's Advanced Management Program and a distinguished lecturer in management at the Senior Executive Institute and Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book Generating Buy-In was selected by Soundview Executive Summaries as one of the Top 30 business books of the year.

Contents:

Cover Page

Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond

Copyright Page

Contents

part 1 The Reinventive Process

Chapter 1 The New Normal

Meeting on the Edge of Tomorrow

Chapter 2 Where Is Your Fascination?

Success Story: Sherwin B. Nuland

Chapter 3 A Blueprint for Reinvention

The Secret of Reinventive Work

Chapter 4 Structuring Your Future

Success Story: Horace Deets

Chapter 5 Diverted to the Desert

How America Got Hooked on Retirement

part 2 The Science of Lifelong Success

Chapter 6 The Magic Touch

Success Story: Marion Rosen

Chapter 7 The Neuroscience of Potential

Why We're Hardwired to Reinvent

Chapter 8 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Success Story: Gil Garcetti

part 3 Happiness Built to Last

Chapter 9 Eugeria

How Paying It Forward Pays You Back

Chapter 10 The Road to Reinvention

Success Story: Rita K. Spina

Chapter 11 The Encore Manifesto

Leveraging the Age Wave

Chapter 12 Realizing Your Potential

Lessons for Getting Started

Epilogue The Rhythm of Reinvention

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

Footnote

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Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613522290

9780071787864

0071787860

9781280118005

1280118008

OCLC:

822336268