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Start Now: Because That Meaningful Job Is Out There, Just Waiting For You Kindle Edition
Newcomers to the workplace. The recently fired. Those desiring to advance with their current employer, and those eager to move on. And many who have found what they do for a living deadening, disappointing, and tedious. For these reasons and others one in five Americans change jobs every year.
Drawing on his extensive career in the non-profit, commercial, and public service realms, Reynold Levy will help you think about your future creatively and prepare for it resourcefully. How to network naturally and adeptly. How to interview effectively. How to perform well in your current job. He will offer you a recipe for moving up in an appealing organization or moving out gracefully to a better position elsewhere.
Start Now offers concrete, actionable, practical advice: Taking fullest advantage of school, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues. Learning how to succeed at work without being imprisoned there. Asking others for help compellingly.
“This book is about work—finding work you love, getting it, doing it well, leaving it—but it is also a book about how to live. Part memoir, part social analysis, part practical guide, it is a terrific read: wise and fun, deep and light, full of stories about people and problems, and the sheer good pleasure of a job that gives back to the world. Never moralizing, just right, Start Now is a book for us all.” —Jennifer Homans, New York Times bestselling author
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRosettaBooks
- Publication dateJanuary 28, 2020
- File size2287 KB
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“As Reynold Levy knows from his multifaceted experience in leading first-class institutions, human talent is the single best indicator of excellence. In Start Now, he brilliantly offers his perspective on how to prepare for a rewarding career. Whether you are a newcomer to the workplace, or seeking a different position, this source of value- added advice is a must-read.” —Tracy R. Wolstencroft, former President & CEO, National Geographic Society, and President, CEO, and Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
“Reynold Levy has once again written a compelling, informative and useful book on a subject he has observed closely. How individuals can best prepare themselves to seek and acquire that meaningful job. Start Now provides a real public service. It insightfully and entertainingly offers valuable advice on how to shape a career and a life that matters.” —David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman, The Carlyle Group
“Reynold Levy has spent his life serving others and achieved the kind of personal and professional success that I admire. His book offers invaluable insight into charting a meaningful career path that is drawn from his experience at the helm of some of the world's most complex and consequential nonprofit institutions. Anyone who aspires to make a difference - and to do so with integrity, kindness, and humor - has much to learn from Levy's hard-won advice.” —Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
“I hope that all of my professional colleagues—as well as friends and family members—read Start Now. Reynold Levy not only encourages you to build relationships that are enduring, to remain intellectually curious and to dive into richly rewarding professional experiences and public service endeavors, he shows you precisely how to do so. Reynold’s practical advice and personal accounts compel action, optimism, personal growth, and fulfillment. Start Now will leave you shaping your professional future more energetically and creatively. What’s more, it will cause you to reconsider what really gives life meaning.” —Kara Medoff Barnett, executive director, American Ballet Theatre
“From the International Rescue Committee to Lincoln Center, Reynold Levy has successfully led some of the world’s most influential nonprofit institutions and also worked as an advisor and board member to major corporations. Drawing on his extraordinary experiences, Levy has written a must-read guide for anyone seeking to build a meaningful career.” —Steven Swartz, president and CEO, Hearst Communications
“Sit down and listen to Reynold Levy. He is a wise man and in this vivid book he extracts the life lessons forged from an enviable career as CEO of a galaxy of important institutions. In clear, crisp sentences, he distills what he has learned about recruiting people and inspiring executives. Readers are treated to a buffet of anecdotes and experiences that can read as a How-To Book, a compelling guide to determine what you wish to do in life, and the best ways to build a meaningful career.” —Ken Auletta, bestselling author and writer for the New Yorker
“This book is about work—finding work you love, getting it, doing it well, leaving it—but it is also a book about how to live. Part memoir, part social analysis, part practical guide, it is a terrific read: wise and fun, deep and light, full of stories about people and problems, and the sheer good pleasure of a job that gives back to the world. Never moralizing, just right, Start Now is a book for us all.” —Jennifer Homans, prize-winning author, founder, The Center for Ballet and the Arts, Dance Critic, The New Yorker
“Add to Reynold Levy’s many professional roles—CEO, salesman, teacher, author, consultant, trustee, and director—that of career counselor. Start Now is chock-full of useful suggestions and advice on how to go about finding the right job and advancing your career, at any stage of life. I’m putting some of these ideas into practice right now.” —Timothy J. McClimon, president, American Express Foundation
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- ASIN : B08KH32P96
- Publisher : RosettaBooks (January 28, 2020)
- Publication date : January 28, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 2287 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 218 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #900,432 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #408 in Job Hunting (Kindle Store)
- #874 in Career Guides
- #1,433 in Job Hunting (Books)
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Start Now is a welcome exception. Reynold Levy has decades of experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, has been engaged with every facet of the hiring process from both sides of the table, and has absorbed life lessons through thousands upon thousands of encounters with professionals on every rung of the career ladder, from aspiring assistants to retiring CEOs.
It is hard to imagine a better use of one's money, and several entertaining hours, than this book. Between its covers is a treasure trove of seriously considered and researched, and elegantly articulated, ideas for how to lead a more fulfilling life and pursue a more rewarding vocation. All offered, with candor and humor, out of a generosity of spirit and irresistible desire to help others. It is a book I enjoyed and will return to repeatedly as a reference and guide.
Reynold Levy’s broad range of successful and impactful leadership positions in the private sector, non-profit sector, the arts and academia is certainly unique. Guided by a moving personal philosophy and set of professional ethical values, Levy’s practical and compelling advice is immediately actionable no matter one’s current station or scale of future ambitions.
Invest in yourself by reading this book. The return on your investment will be remarkable.
p.s. Below please find some favorite passages of mine fyi.
It is never too early to prepare for meaningful work. A career is biography in motion.
Schools educate. Employers train.
The absolute worst time to look for a job is when you need one.
The more you accumulate knowledge, experience, skills, and responsibility, the greater the likelihood of success.
Build a network of active relationships. Securing meaningful work and succeeding professionally is a collective enterprise.
In life’s pursuit, always aims to be “in the room where it happens.” Serendipity often prevails over planning.
Finding meaningful work is not a hobby or an extracurricular activity. Research, reflection, and deliberate practice are indispensable to success.
Prepare for a job interview so well that it becomes more of a conversation than an interrogation. Pg14
The best time to look for a new job is when you are securely settled in another one. Pg17
Bill Gates has said that if you took the 20 smartest people out of Microsoft it would be an insignificant company, and if you ask around the company what its core competency is, they don’t say anything about software. They say it’s hiring. Pg88
Successful employers and employees have at least two characteristics in common. They are always forward looking and market focused. Pg88
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson
Believe you can, and you’re halfway there. – Theordore Roosevelt pg135
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. – Victor Frankel
There is no life that couldn’t be immortal, if only for a moment. – Wislawa Szymborska pg155