Getting Unstuck. How Dead Ends Become New Paths.

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You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you're stuck or paralyzed. You're convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this feeling is normal, you need to move beyond it. Failure to "get unstuck" can put your career and personal life--as well as the healthy functioning of your team or organization--at risk.

In Getting Unstuck , business psychologist and researcher Timothy Butler offers strategies for moving beyond a career or personal-life impasse--by recognizing the state of impasse, awakening your imagination, recognizing patterns of meaning in your life, and taking action for change.

Drawing on a wealth of stories about individuals who have successfully transitioned out of impasses, Getting Unstuck provides a practical, authoritative road map for moving past your immediate impasse--and defining a meaningful path forward.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments (p. xi)
• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Part I Impasse
• 1 Facing Crisis (p. 3)
• 2 Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves (p. 15)
• 3 Opening Up and Letting Go (p. 39)
• 4 Shifting to a New Understanding (p. 49)
• Part II Vision
• 5 Our Deepest Interests: The First Pattern in the Carpet (p. 81)
• 6 Learning to Let Our Passions Guide Us (p. 101)
• 7 Power, People, and Achievement: Three Interwoven Patterns (p. 117)
• 8 Mapping Our Insights: Patterns in the Sand (p. 137)
• Part III Getting Unstuck
• 9 Moving from Impasse to Action (p. 157)
• 10 Living at the Border (p. 167)
• Appendixes
• A Continuing the Journey: An Annotated Bibliography (p. 173)
• B A Note on Impasse and Depression (p. 187)
• C Scoring the One Hundred Jobs Exercise (p. 191)
• Notes (p. 195)
• Index (p. 199)
• About the Author (p. 205)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

(Bowker Author Biography)