Slow Burn

The Strategic Career Playbook for Mid-Career Professionals Who Want to Advance Without Burning Out - A Research-Backed Guide to Building the Career You Actually Want

von Daniel R Hart

90 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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You have been working harder than almost anyone around you. So why does it feel like you are running in place?You are somewhere in the middle of your career - not at the beginning, where everything still feels possible, and not at the end, where the shape of the whole thing becomes visible. You are in the middle. And somewhere in the past few years, the model that got you here has stopped working as well as it used to.The sprint - the work-harder, be-more-available, say-yes-to-everything approach that built your career this far - is no longer taking you further. It is just taking more.Slow Burn is the strategic career playbook for mid-career professionals who are done with the sprint and ready to build something that actually compounds. Drawing on decades of research in organisational psychology, cognitive science, and career development, it presents a counterintuitive but rigorously supported argument: the professionals who build the most sustainably successful careers are almost never the hardest workers in the room. They are the most strategically patient ones.Inside, you will discover: - Why the behaviours that drove your early career success are now actively limiting your advancement - and what to replace them with- The career compounding framework - how deep skills, genuine relationships, and a specific reputation multiply each other to produce outcomes the sprint can never match- How to identify your mastery territory - the specific domain where going deeper will produce the greatest long-term leverage- The relationship long game - why conventional networking produces almost nothing, and what genuine professional relationship investment actually looks like- Strategic visibility without self-promotion - how to be genuinely seen and valued without exhausting yourself performing busyness- The six patience moves - the specific career decisions that feel slow now and compound dramatically over the next decade- Why the AI era makes the slow burn more urgent than ever - and why the sprint professional is the one most at riskThis is not a book about doing less. It is a book about doing the right things - the ones that compound, that build genuine career capital, and that produce the professional life you actually want rather than the one that simply consumed the most of your time and energy.For the mid-career professional who is excellent at their job and ready to stop paying more than they should have to for the advancement they deserve. Daniel R Hart is a writer and researcher working at the intersection of psychology, professional development, and adult working life. He is also the author of Who Am I Now?, Becoming Yourself, and The Smart Midlife Career Transition, published under the Mindbridge Press imprint.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175719292
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published