Learning to Fly

The future is full of opportunity if you know where to look. Mike Rosenberg is a wise, pragmatic guide to the spectrum of career paths now opening up-and how to find your own path by walking it. -John Elkington, founder and chief pollinator, Volans, and author of Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism. The world is full of enormous challenges which are also opportunities. Mike Rosenberg's book gives people of all ages insight into how to shape their career to find both purpose and opportunity in the changing world we are living in. -Franz Heukamp, dean, IESE Business School, Spain. Unstable times affect professional careers and those who stubbornly stick to their old plan will find themselves in a bad place. The quality of the answers Mike Rosenberg gives us is based on the quality of the questions he asks from the perspective of digital change, environmental influences and geopolitical factors -Wolfgang Doell, founder, Gain Advisors, one of Germany's leading executive search consultants. Career management should be a continuous exercise that, as a road map, must be detailed enough to be useful and updated enough to be relevant. Once again Mike has mastered in this book the integration of his unique holistic vision and real life experience gained at top institutions in strategy consulting, executive search and business education. Through the pages of this book, Mike helps those new to the work place and senior level executives reflect on their career and set a purpose driven personal and professional plan. -Diego Esteban, Managing Director at Russel Reynolds, Singapore. In Learning to Fly, IESE professor Mike Rosenberg looks at the changes that have occurred in the world of work as a result of Covid 19 and its economic impact and spells out an approach that professionals of all levels can take to manage their professional lives in these complex and uncertain times. In the book, Professor Rosenberg shows how in addition to Covid-19, increased digitalization, more uncertain global geopolitics and the ongoing climate crisis all create an inflection point which will affect many people's jobs and careers. To proactively manage what comes next, he puts forward a framework you can use to look at your own professional life and chart a path to the future despite the complexity and uncertainty. -Wolfgang Doell, Founder & Managing Director, Gain Management Advisors, Germany. Mike Rosenberg in his book considers an issue which is important for any person of any age, who would like to be successful, actual and in demand: how to plan, design and build up a career. The book is much broader than just how to find a job. In particular it discusses work-life balance, purpose and values, and bears in mind that we work to live not live to work. - Andrei Sharanov, President, Skolkovo Business School, Moscow. Many of us will remember the Covid-19 as a key turning point, where we felt compelled to revisit what mattered the most, what purpose animated us, and what course we should chart for ourselves. How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World provides the clues to approach this change, while navigating an uncertain environment. A must read with full of key learning's based on experience, and truly applicable to everyone, at every stage of a career. -Vincent Petit, Senior Vice President, Energy Transition, Sustainability Re-search Institute. COVID-19 and its aftermath have thrown the global economy and job market into chaos. Learning to Fly is a how-to guide on navigating the chaos, and finding meaning and purpose at work along the way. It gives readers practical ideas and tools to manage their careers in a whole new way. -Michelle Wallin, journalist who works for communications Director at the business school.