Building Your Resilient Career Agile, Opportunistic, and Sustaining

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Building Your Resilient Career Agile,
Opportunistic, and Sustaining

• Public Library Association
• Twelfth National Conference
• March 29, 2008
• Kim Dority, G. K. Dority Associates, Inc.
• kimdority_at_gkdority.com
• www.rethinkinginformationwork.com

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• The last of the human freedoms
• to choose ones attitude in any given set of
  circumstances, to choose ones own way.
• Victor Frankl

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The best way to predict the future is to create
it. Alan Kay

• Self-leadership

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We must be willing to get rid of the life weve
planned, so as to have the life that is waiting
for us. Joseph Campbell

• Adaptability

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The only way to make sense out of change is to
plunge into it, move with it, and join the
dance. Alan Watts

• Willingness to embrace change

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones
courage. Anäis Nin

• Willingness to take risks

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I get up every morning determined to both change
the world and have one hell of a good time.
Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White

• Willingness to make decisions

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The Graceful Exitmeans leaving whats over
without denying its validity or its past
importance in our lives. It involves a sense of
future, a belief that every exit line is an
entry, that we are moving on, rather than out.
Ellen Goodman

• Willingness to accept (and respond to) reality

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Things do not get better by being left alone.
Winston Churchill

• Commitment to focus on solutions

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous
unpremeditated act without the benefit of
experience. Henry Miller

• Willingness to reinvent ourselves on an
• as-needed basis

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You have to sing every day to work up to being,
you know, amazingly brilliant.
Mick Jagger

• Start building visibility

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Knowledge is information that changes something
or somebody either by becoming grounds for
action, or by making an individual (or an
institution) capable of different or more
effective action. Peter F. Drucker

• Start building your portfolio

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Only connect. E. M. Forster

• Start building your
• community of colleagues

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In times of change, learners
inherit the earth. Eric
Hoffer

• Take charge of your learning

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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to
lose oneself. Søren Kierkegaard

• Start exploring the profession

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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by
every experience in which you stop and look fear
in the face. You must do the thing you think you
cannot do you learn by living. Eleanor
Roosevelt

• Start exploring your boundaries

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Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis
PasteurSo does opportunity...

• Put yourself in the path
• of opportunity

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Everything I know I learned bodysurfing
in Southern California. Kim Dority

• Anticipate
• Position for opportunity
• Paddle like crazy
• Enjoy the ride, but know it will end
• Dont take the sand in your suit personally
• Know that a new wave is always on the way

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Kim DorityG. K. Dority Associates,
Inc.www.rethinkinginformationwork.comkimdority_at_g
kdority.comVice President, Content and
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