The Career Lattice: Combat Brain Drain, Improve Company Culture, and Attract Top Talent,Used

Reroute your career path for better, faster, longerlasting successIf youve been waiting for your HR department to plan out your next career move, youll be stuck waiting forever. Joanne Cleaver explains why the career matrix is what you need to succeed. Its valuable information that most HR departments arent ready or able to give you.Suzanne Lucas, the Evil HR Lady, evilhrlady.org As Cleaver insightfully writes, the traditional career ladder is dead. To stay relevant, workers need to become nimble, enterprising, and far more professionally connected than their prerecession counterparts. Essential reading for anyone who wants to stand out in todays highly competitive business world.Michelle Goodman, author of The Anti 9to5 Guide and My SoCalled Freelance LifeIn postrecessionary Corporate America, the ladder is becoming a thing of the past. You need to think of your career in a new way, a way in which you are constantly focused on acquiring new and honing existing skill sets to remain marketable and competitive. Using Joanne Cleavers Career Lattices prescription of groupcentered coaching and mentoring, youll get by with a little help from your friends.Alexandra Levit, author of Blind Spots: 10 Business Myths You Cant Afford to Believe on Your New Path to SuccessOVER IS THE NEW UP.Thanks to the rise of global labor, increasing automation of job functions, and the flattening of workplace organizations, the traditional corporate ladder is goneand well probably never see it again. For smart, talented, motivated workers, this is the best career news to emerge in a long time.Instead of following the path of predetermined corporate hierarchies, you need to design a more flexible career path. Its called the Career Lattice, and its about adding new skills to current abilitieswhile letting go of things that are no longer relevant. Its about evolving. Its about embracing change.In The Career Lattice, career consultant and business journalist Joanne Cleaver gives you the insight, information, tools, and best practices you need to: Invest in the best training or continued education for your future goals Make smart lateral moves now to help you make upward moves later Network more strategically than ever See possibilities down the road that would otherwise have escaped youThe Lattice is both more stable and more dynamic than the linear career ladder. No matter your age or career stage, latticing equips you to make your move into emerging jobs or careers in all industries with more speed, skill, and confidence than your competitors.It isnt your fathers world of business anymore. Linearity is out; flexibility is in. The Career Lattice is what you need to make the smartest possible career decisions in a completely transformed world of business.