Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose by Lauren McGoodwin | Published May 19th 2020 by Harper Business | 288 pages | Goodreads
REVIEW
An excellent guide for professional women on how to empower their careers and perform at a higher level. I enjoyed reading this book and found the information extremely valuable, relevant, and full of actionable steps.
The book not only focuses on the professional aspects, but also touches on personal advice, after all it makes sense that to be able to succeed (by your definition of success), there must be a balance in all areas of our life.
Something that has helped me a lot, and that I found it validated on the book, was how much more productive, focused, and creative we can become when we adopt the perspective of being in a never-ending process of learning and growing.
The book touches on a lot of other subjects that I can’t narrow down on a review, but I highly recommend it to women of any age and at any level of their careers.
PUBLISHER’S DESCRIPTION
From the founder of the influential website Career Contessa, an invaluable career resource for women feeling stuck or unfulfilled that combines actionable advice, learning tools to make impactful life changes, and an in-depth discussion of how to build a meaningful career on your terms.
With her popular website Career Contessa, Lauren McGoodwin built an audience of ambitious, professional, millennial women who thought they did everything right—they got the degree, the internship, and even the promotion—but still wondered why they felt stuck and unfulfilled. The first site of its kind to focus on the unique, complex aspects of women’s careers, Career Contessa offers women the smart advice they deserve, in a voice that resonates.
Drawing on the insights and lessons developed from Career Contessa, Power Moves is the essential handbook that helps professional women truly feel understood so they can bypass perfection and planning and head straight to evolving. McGoodwin addresses young professionals’ number-one concern: career transitions and growth, and engages them with specific goals, including:
- What is a Power Move and why they matter
- Cutting out comparison, shame, and self-loathing
- How to abandon the elusive “dream job”
- Embracing your inner questioner, your inner quester, and your inner-quitter
- Making money moves and taking control of your financial future
- Tuning out from the noise and tuning into your voice
Power Moves is filled with the information, guidance, advice, and essential tools, (including helpful graphics) that can help women take decisive, bold steps without self-doubt and fear, Power Moves shows women how to build a successful career on their own terms.
BOOK SOURCE AND FORMAT
ARC provided by the publisher, ebook