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Pursuing Legacy


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Pursuing Legacy: Principles for an Influential Career & Impactful Life is a research-based professional development book that offers practical knowledge on how individuals can tap into their familial environment and personal ambitions to make impactful career decisions. This book guides the reader through the process of creating and maintaining a career legacy through real-life stories of members of six successful family businesses, spanning over 100 years and four generations. The career stories offer rich and vivid descriptions of common elements of legacies, including the historical processes in America which fueled entrepreneurship and family business. Each chapter ends with a summary of important tips learned from the legacy told by the family. A discussion on the key principles of legacy and how to activate these principles is the integral lesson of this book. Worksheets and assessments are also included to help the reader discover their family values, assess their career ambitions, and pursue their legacy through the promotion of generative thinking. Reader Benefits After reading this book, readers will have a better understanding of what it is to have and leave a legacy. 1. Assess the influence of past experiences-How have your family beginnings, environment, and upbringing shaped your career decisions? 2. Determine purpose-Where are you going in life and what talent/ability do you uniquely possess? 3. Plan career legacy- What do you want to and what will you leave behind for the next generation? 4. Make an impact-How do you apply your skills, passions, and experiences to change your environment?
About the Author: Porscha Jackson, is an adult educator, certified career coach, philanthropist, and author with a passion for "making people better". She has spent more than 10 years in the nonprofit sector educating, counseling, training, and developing adults for career advancement, community leadership, and scholastic achievement. Throughout her career, she has received awards for her work in the community and is highly recognized and respected for her professionalism, project management accomplishments, and presentations on career-related issues and personnel development. During her doctoral candidacy in human resource development, she developed an interest in the familial influence on careers and has since become a field expert in the research of career legacies and its parallelism to workforce development. Recently, Dr. PJ, as she is affectionately referred to because of her personable approach, has started her own consultancy specializing in career development services. Additionally, she is actively involved in various community and professional organizations centered on human resource development, adult learning, and urban education. She also enjoys advocating for Successful Shoes, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization she founded to provide encouragement through shoe donations and career development services to women in transitional programs and homes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780692724811
  • Publisher: Paisley Publishing (TN)
  • Publisher Imprint: Paisley Publishing (TN)
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 182
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Principles for an Influential Career & Impactful Life
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0692724818
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 286 gr


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