The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card

The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card

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Whether you're navigating a bumpy job market, making a post-kid pivot, responding to AI threats, or simply looking for a redesign that reflects updated priorities and ambitions, The Portfolio Life offers a practical way to build diversification and flexibility into your life and career in an ever-changing world.

Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Christina Wallace presents an anti-hustle, pro-rest alternative to the one-job, one-identity model of yesteryear. Rather than asking you to choose a single path--or turn every interest into a side hustle--she shows you how to build a resilient portfolio career and life that can evolve with you.

A Portfolio Life is built on three principles:

  1. You are more than any one role or opportunity.
  2. Diversification helps you navigate change and mitigate uncertainty.
  3. When your needs change, you can--and should--rebalance.
Drawing on research, case studies, and her experience across entrepreneurship, consulting, education, Broadway, and classical music, Wallace shows you how to carry forward what works, expand your options, make room for what matters, and rebalance as life changes. The result is not a busier life, but a more flexible, fulfilling, and future-ready one.

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Publish date April 16, 2024
Publisher Balance
Format Paperback
Pages 256
Language Eng
ISBN 9781538710487
153871048X

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