Making Changes to Overcome a Plateau

Change happens every day, on personal and organizational levels, with or without their participation. Most humans dislike change, yet their brains are wired to appreciate novelty and new things. Likewise, stability is a requirement of successful organizations, but so, too, are innovation and disrupt...

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Published in:Information Outlook (Online) 2018-05, Vol.22 (3), p.14-15
Main Author: Rosen, Nathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Libraries
Career development
Career plateaus
Careers
Change management
Company business management
Disruption
Employment
Forecasts and trends
Innovations
Libraries
Lifelong Learning
Management
Market trend/market analysis
Organizational change
School Libraries
Special Libraries
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Summary:Change happens every day, on personal and organizational levels, with or without their participation. Most humans dislike change, yet their brains are wired to appreciate novelty and new things. Likewise, stability is a requirement of successful organizations, but so, too, are innovation and disruption. A more recent resource that addresses change and the real-life situations they all face in their professional life is Judith Bardwick's The Plateauing Trap: How to avoid it in your career and your life. In a little over 200 pages, Bardwick suggests some constructive and creative ways to deal with the inevitable stage in their professional life when we reach a plateau--for example, their career has stalled, the work is no longer exciting, and the future promises more of the same. According to Bardwick, they all face three different kinds of plateauing problems: structural, content, and life. Structural plateauing can best be described in terms of a pyramid structure.
ISSN:1091-0808
1938-3819