Career Resilience

It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning fifty years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the 10 most important ones to help you develop yourself, make the right career moves, navigate inevitable detours and disruptions, and turn your professional dreams into reality.

Have you ever felt ignored at work, overlooked for opportunities, or rejected after giving your best? Have you found yourself questioning your worth because others failed to recognize your contribution? Have you wondered how to rebuild your confidence and move forward after a major career setback? Know Your Value. Trust Yourself. Rebuild Your Career. Build Career Resilience is a practical and emotionally empowering guide for professionals who want to protect their dignity, trust themselves, and recover stronger from difficult career experiences. This book combines three powerful frameworks ...

Diary of a Probie: Turning Setbacks into Strengths is a raw, inspiring account of firefighter Nichole O’Donnell’s first steps into the fire service. Written in a diary form, each entry reveals powerful lessons in resilience, perseverance, and personal growth. From battling self-doubt to overcoming relentless challenges, O’Donnell shares what it truly meant to be a “probie” and how setbacks can become stepping stones to success. This motivational book is perfect for: New firefighters navigating the uncertainty of their early career. EMS and fire service professionals seeking ...

A masterpiece of warrior wisdom that shows how to overcome obstacles with positive action. The best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offers a self-help book unlike any other. Two years ago, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he...

What type of leadership is needed in a moment that demands adaptive change? Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains, is uniquely positioned to explore the qualities of adaptive leadership in contexts ranging from churches to nonprofit organizations. He deftly examines both the external challenges we face and the internal resistance that holds us back. When reflection and relationships are combined into a life of deliberate practice, leaders become both stronger and more flexible.

You want to get more out of yourself. You want to know how to take your performance to the next level. You want to uncover secrets to elite performance. You’re in the right place, but the path ahead is not what you think. Mark Mathieson outlines the nine key lessons that enable you to reconnect with your life to take advantage of the hidden, wild systems all around you. Mark will show you how to master these skills to develop grit and passion to re-wild your existence in a way that leads to sustainable high performance.

Resilient leaders rise: Empower yourself and your team to conquer every challenge. Have you ever experienced a moment when the pace of the world seemed to surpass your ability to keep up? As a leader, the demands of navigating through challenging times can feel utterly overwhelming. The business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate, presenting new challenges and uncertainties every day.

Brought to you by Penguin. Unlock the key to success with the inspirational, multi-million-copy bestseller from the pioneering psychologist. THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON THE MEL ROBBINS PODCAST Why do some people achieve extraordinary results while others, who are just as...

Unlock the power of healing and resilience—Soul Leadership equips leaders to transform trauma into strength, creating healthier organizations and communities through practical strategies rooted in science and spiritual wisdom.

“A comprehensive road map for parents who want to raise securely attached, emotionally healthy children. A parenting must-read.” —Alyssa Blask Campbell, M.Ed., author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions ______ Learn how to create a lifetime of connection, trust, and open communication with your...

The Resilience Pivot: Turn Job Search Rejection into Career Success Stop Playing a "Numbers Game" with 200-to-1 Odds. Start Winning with a Strategic Pivot. It’s 10:00 AM on a Tuesday. Your phone buzzes. You see the words: “While we were impressed with your background, we have decided to move forward with other candidates.” Your stomach drops. Your heart rate spikes. You’ve just hit the "Invisible Wall." In the job market, rejection has become industrial-sized. Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) filter you out before a human ever sees your name, and "ghosting" has become normal. Most ...

What if everything you’ve been told about resilience was wrong? Is resilience about bouncing back after disruption or loss? Is it a character trait fixed in stone, revealed only after hardship? That old, reactive definition doesn’t get you far in today’s uncertain world. What if resilience is something you can learn, train, and design into your leadership and your life? It’s time to embrace a new way of thinking about resilience.

Burnout to Balance is a practical, science-informed guide to burnout recovery and prevention for remote work. It helps you protect your energy, set realistic boundaries, and build sustainable success—without rigid routines or guilt-driven self-care.

In The Resilience Breakthrough, Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you're facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can each have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life's hardships.

Calm Your Emotions is the rare book that understands where you’ve been, the obstacles you’ve overcome, and what you need to make sure you are in full control of your life at all times. This is a stunningly detailed and insightful guide into our emotions, our triggers, and why we act against our own interests so frequently. The key to our emotions is not to just “think calm and meditate” or “be mindful and grateful”.

Are you a Sensitive Striver? Learn how to get out of your own way and rediscover your sensitivity as a superpower. ___ Highly sensitive and high performing? ___ Need time to think through decisions before you act? ___ Judge yourself harshly when you make mistakes? ___ Take feedback and criticism...

Read by the author. Be prepared for the dangerous and largely unknown risks that threaten your business and learn how to survive and thrive when uncertainty hits. Leaders today must navigate their teams and organizations through unprecedented levels of uncertainty. It feels like every year there...

As a teenager, real-estate broker Danny Morel felt he was destined to do great things. Even though he had to contend with a lackluster education system and lived on welfare in a single-parent home, he didn't let any of that hold him back. He had resilience - and now you can, too.

From the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to the boardrooms of Nike, Walmart, and Microsoft, Blayne Smith and Brandon Young have consistently built tightly-knit, high-performing teams that persevere and win. Join the Army Rangers on the peaks of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan and the Green Berets at Firebase Anaconda to gain key insights for leading teams through uncertainty and the understanding that perseverance is what’s most required for today’s complex world.

It’s not easy going out there solo… but you can make waves in the business world when you know what it takes to thrive. Why did you set out as a solo entrepreneur? The chances are, you were ready to ditch the 9-5 and get more control over your life. You wanted more money to show for the work you do. You wanted that work to be something you care passionately about. It’s a liberating journey, full of excitement and possibility… but it also has a tough side. You might feel isolated much of the time.