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Using twenty real-life stories for inspiration, this guide to personal growth shares the insights, challenges, miracles, and beliefs that enabled ordinary people to change their careers and begin enjoying themselves to the fullest. 25,000 first printing.
About the Author
The daughter of a covert CIA operative, Martha grew up traveling the world and learning life's lessons from a man who was totally committed to his work. From those beginnings, Martha's own life's calling was set in stone -- to explore all the many ways people discover the work they love, land the jobs that they want, and, in turn, help make their companies successful.Having spent the first part of her career as a journalist, she's now a consultant, speaker and author specializing in employee engagement and career management. She's especally excited about her new book, Rebound: A Proven Plan For Starting Over After Job Loss, and the forthcoming book, Unlock the Hidden Job Market, which she cowrote with the fabulous Duncan Mathison.)She divides her time between Silicon Valley and Santa Fe, where she shares her honeysuckle-vine covered adobe writer's cottage with three cats, deadlines and a cherry red KitchenAid stand mixer. (Man cannot live on great jobs alone.)Martha's work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, Time.com, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers around the United States.Her books have been translated into Mandarin, French, Spanish, and Arabic. Which just goes to show that everyone wants to love their work.
