| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: A Guide for the Idealist's Path -- Today's Planners -- How Do Idealism and Realism Meet in Planning? -- Planning Compared to Other Professions -- Motivation -- Why Take My Word for It? -- Benefits of Reflection -- Map of the Book -- And Now to You: Using the Book -- pt. I Launching -- 2. Am I Good Enough? -- Doubt and Performance -- Narcissism of Minimal Doubt -- Narcissism of Excess Doubt -- Managing Doubt -- And Now to You: Effort Without a Guarantee of Results -- 3. Making Choices -- Choices Faced by Planners -- Components of Decisions: Feeling, Rational Thought, and Soul -- And Now to You: Courage and Authenticity -- 4. What Is My Work? -- Types of Planning Work -- Follow Your Bliss? -- Sorting out Purpose by Values -- Sorting out Systems of Change: Grassroots Advocacy Versus Working Inside Big Systems -- Sorting out Methods of Doing the Work -- Sorting out a Future as a Manager -- And Now to You: It's Worth It -- 5. What Work Setting? -- Good Fit, Not a Perfect One -- Avoid Toxic Work Environments-Seek Positive Ones -- Home-Based, Small Organization, Large Organization Work Settings -- Flat Versus Hierarchical Organizations -- Office Versus Fieldwork -- Creativity -- When Planning Isn't Well-Established -- And Now to You: Find a Fit -- 6. Career Plans Are Useless -- Planning, Context, and Chance -- Changes in Planning Employment -- Does Planning Theory Have Relevance to Career Planning? An Alternative Career Planning Approach -- Example of Scenario/Contingency/Anticipation Analysis -- Career Path Stories -- And Now to You: The Elevator Talk -- pt. II Succeeding -- 7. Principled Adaptability -- Principled Adaptability Planning Style -- Labelling Versus a Dynamic System -- And Now to You: Passion and Reason -- 8. Being Right -- "I'm Right" Situations -- Upstream and Downstream from the Entry-Level Planner -- Misunderstanding: Being "Right" in Relation to Supervisors -- Espoused Theory and Theory-in-Use -- Prophet: Being Right in Relation to Decision-Makers and Community -- Loyalty, Voice and Exit -- And Now to You: The Happy Warrior -- 9. Avoiding Wrong -- Planners' Ethics -- About Ethics -- Planner's Internal Compass -- Planning Profession's Compass -- Ways of Being Wrong -- After a Mistake -- And Now to You: Your Deeds Define You -- 10. Navigating Managers, Organizations, and Teams -- Dealing with Managers -- Organizational Culture -- Working in Teams -- When It Is Time to Leave -- And Now to You: Cultivate Empathy -- 11. Working With Mentors -- Types of Mentoring -- How to Find Mentors -- Mentee Do's and Don'ts -- Boundaries in Mentor/Mentee Relationships -- And Now to You: A Mentoring Game Plan -- 12. Conclusion: Your Idealist Story -- Your Career Narrative -- Translating Reflection to Practice -- This Is It -- Appendix A Research on Generational Differences -- Appendix B Methods of Reflection -- Journal and Write -- Talk and Listen -- Diagnose Ability and Interests -- Physical Activities That Produce Reflection -- Meditate -- Make Art -- Join a Group on a Similar Journey -- What to Do With Reflection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Planning -- Vocational guidance
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Personality and occupation.
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Personality and occupation
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Planning -- Vocational guidance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315111193 |
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1315111195 |
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9781351618311 |
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1351618318 |
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1351618326 |
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9781351618328 |
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