MIDLIFE CRISIS
Career Success and Personal Success : Achieving Integration to Revitalize Midlife Careers
-- Ronald J Burke
The career success and personal failure phenomenon continues to exist for the mid-life professionals and managers. Despite the corporate value system at the strategic level, managers must recognize that one is not a true success if they are also a personal failure. Career success and personal failure can be detrimental to the organization, to the individual and the family.
MIDLIFE CRISIS Preempting Midlife Crisis : The Proactive Measures
-- Colle Davis
Here are the steps for you to inoculate yourself against this creeping disease that some people get before they get Alzheimers or become senile or die.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
A Self-Related Cognitive Approach : To Midlife Crisis in Organizations
-- Jose Mathews
Midlife crisis, which is primarily centered on the person, involves intense psychological changes. Over and above the multitude of environmental factors that contribute to the crisis, researchers are to pay greater attention to the self of the person. The self-system as the core of the personality has a number of subsystems, including self-concept, self-esteem, self-functioning, self-efficacy and perceived sense of control. This article presents a self-related cognitive approach to midlife crisis in organizations and finally the coping strategies that may be effectively utilized, are explained.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
How the Work Ethic Mitigates Midlife Crisis : Build a Strong Work Ethic
-- David Jack Cherrington
Although it is only anecdotal, the evidence suggests that the work ethic plays a significant role in providing meaning and purpose in life, thereby eliminating the conditions that contribute to a midlife crisis. People who have a strong work ethic enjoy a zest for living and an enthusiasm for their work that serves to insulate them from psychological stress and depression.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
Holistic Approach to Problem Solving : For Wholesome Learning
-- Dr. KV Subramanian
The systems approach attempts to recognize the realities of a real world open system, that is subject to the influence of the happenings in the environment, and therefore poorly controlled. This framework provides a structured approach to study and comprehend an unstructured problem.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
A Real Look of Resistance to Change : Change it
-- Dr. S L Chau The management of change, including how to anticipate and assess the strength of resistance and then proactively manage it, is one of the most difficult challenges faced by contemporary managers.
© 2009 Dr. S L Chau. All Rights Reserved.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
Hit or Miss : Midlife Crisis
-- Rebecca Kelly
It's coming at you… at the speed of light… right between the eyes… you turn 35 and wake up with a decision!!! In my case, the collision occurred when I had the confidence in myself and made the decision to divorce the man I had married when I was 28.
© 2009 Rebecca Kelly. All Rights Reserved.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
After the midlife blues, start again :But at the top
-- Prof. Jacqueline Fendt
For many executives, midlife crisis is a reality. Often unrelated to any objective reasons, and in the bloom of an apparently smooth life pattern and successful career, a sense of emptiness, of unfulfilled dreams, or even of guilt can strike the middle-aged manager. But midlife confusion, if listened to, can be an opportunity for reinvention, rather than for depression. Many a successful entrepreneur started out around the middle of his life. Here's how to write the playbook for this new career - the one as your own boss.
© 2009 Jecquelline Fendt. All Rights Reserved.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
Career Turnaround: career change late in life as a strategy for career regeneration : A Qualitative Study
-- Dr. Stephanie Jones
Mid-life crisis can be felt at different times for different people. Some are happy and fulfilled in their careers until they get a sudden perception of the grass being greener at the age of 50 or even older. Several people wake up a decade earlier and decide that they have not done, or are not doing, what they really want.
© 2009 Stephanie Jones. All Rights Reserved.
MIDLIFE CRISIS
Enjoy Your Midlife Crisis : or any other time
-- Barry Maher
Try laughter. Try making a joke out of it, using self-deprecating humor. It shows confidence. It shows that you're amazed things went wrong. It makes what could be a problem, fun for the people you are dealing with.
© 2009 Barry Maher. All Rights Reserved.
INTERVIEW
People who feel burned out should embrace some pattern breaking activity.
-- Paul Bracken
The interview was conducted by Dr. Nagendra V Chowdary
It can be golf, learning a new field, like dynamical systems theory, or even taking a hobby seriously. Community service and travel are also great stimulants. I tell my students that however old they are they should always be taking at least one course. It may be at a university, or it may be over the Internet, or just reading systematically a new field like risk management. INTERVIEW In our global surveys, people around the world consistently tell us that relationships with friends and family
-- Ken Dychtwald ,
The interview was conducted by Dr. Nagendra V Chowdary,
Ken Dychtwald PhD, is the founding president and CEO of Age Wave (www.Agewave.com), a San Francisco, California-based think tank and consulting firm focused on the maturing marketplace and workforce.
INTERVIEW
The symptom of being in midcareer is that you have a trajectory that will continue if you don't change it.
-- Peter Cappelli ,
The interview was conducted by Dr. Nagendra V Chowdary,
Peter Cappelli is the George W Taylor Professor of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA, served as Senior Advisor to the Kingdom of Bahrain for Employment Policy from 2005, and from 2007 is a Distinguished Scholar of the Ministry of Manpower for Singapore.
INTERVIEW
The basis of our "Existential Necessity of Midlife Change" is the realization that the increase in life-expectancy is about to make midlife change inevitable for most of us.
-- Carlo Strenger ,
The interview was conducted by Dr. Nagendra V Chowdary
Carlo Strenger was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained in philosophy and psychology and received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently associate professor at the psychology department of Tel Aviv University, a member of the Institute of Existential Psychoanalysis, Zurich and of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists.
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