5 Books to Read After Getting Laid Off
List of 5 books to read after getting laid off. Check out the booklist.
1. Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance
In Halftime, Buford provides the encouragement and insight to propel your life on a new course to true significance–and the best years of your life. Buford focuses on this important time of transition to the second half of your life, leading you to . . .
- Take stock of your successes and accomplishments thus far
- Redefine significance and what it means to you
- Identify your personal goals
- Develop a mission for serving God in the second half of your life
- And more
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2. Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
As in the Obstacle is the way, Ryan holiday delivers practical and inspiring philosophy, this time exploring a powerful concept that runs back centuries, across borders and schools of thought: Ego. Ego is our biggest enemy. Early in our careers, it can prevent us from learning and developing our talents. When we taste success, ego can blind us to our own faults, alienate us from others and lead to our downfall. In failure, ego is devastating and makes recovery all the more difficult.
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3. Your Best Life Now
Pastor Joel Osteen asks everyone to examine what he or she really believes. Why is this important? Because we will become what we believe. Our beliefs will prove either a barrier or vehicle as we strive to go higher, rise above our obstacles, and to live in health, abundance, and victory.
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4. Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step
Stanford innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who and where we are, our careers and our age. Designing Your Life puts forward the idea that the same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products and spaces can be used to build towards a better life and career by a design of your own making.
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5. Mistakes I Made at Work
In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators across a variety of fields – from the arts to finance to tech – reveal that they’re more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders because they learned from their mistakes, not because they never made any.
