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You know you can do more with your career. And the future is going to demand more of you.

The problem is you are so busy keeping up with the day-to-day that you can't prepare for tomorrow. Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace gives you the confidence and knowledge you need to achieve your goals in an ever-changing world. Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick—established experts and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning—offer evidence-based guidance on obtaining the skills you will need to thrive in tomorrow's workplace. Built on solid, global research and dozens of personal interviews with people who have achieved new and inspiring goals, Stretch offers advice, valuable insights, anecdotes, and recommendations to make achieving your goals practical and within reach.

If you are like other professionals, your biggest worry is becoming obsolete at work. Shifting technologies, fierce competition among corporations, and recruitment occurring on a global level would give anyone concern. To remain relevant in spite of change, you need to know how to:

• Learn in any situation
• Open your thinking to a world beyond where you are now
• Connect to the people who can help you make your future happen
• Seek experiences that will prepare you for tomorrow
• Stay motivated through the ups and downs of a career so you can bounce forward

Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace offers five practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment. Don't become obsolete. Instead, stretch to achieve your potential.

Karie Willyerd is a Workplace Futurist at SuccessFactors, an SAP human capital software company. Prior to that she was the cofounder and CEO of Jambok, the industry’s first video-based informal social learning software platform, which was acquired by SuccessFactors in March, 2011. Jambok is now incorporated into the SAP Jam product offering. Karie was formerly Chief Learning Officer for Sun Microsystems. In October 2009, ASTD named Sun the #1 BEST learning function in the world. Barbara Mistick is President of Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. A seasoned entrepreneur, advocate for higher education affordability and recognized expert in leadership development, she recently made history pioneering the nation’s first loan buy-back program for college students. A recognized change agent, she was named a Distinguished Service Professor for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and continues to hold prominent leadership roles in some of higher education’s most influential national organizations. Prior to her roles in academia, Barbara was an accomplished two-time entrepreneur.

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Part 1: Introduction	1
1	The Stretch Imperative
	Part 2: It’s All on You	31
2	Learn on the Fly
3	Be Open
	Part 3: You Need Options	91
4	Build a Diverse Network
5	Be Greedy About Experiences
	Part 4: You Have Dreams	153
6	Bounce Forward
	Part 5: Charting the Path Forward	183
7	Stretch into Your Future
	Supplemental Materials
	Acknowledgments
	List of Figures and Tables
	Appendix A: Research Methodology; Key Workplace 2020
	Appendix B: Essential Books to Learn More
	Notes
	Index	245

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