Learn, grow, and chart your course

Building a successful career starts with you.

It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your job and lose sight of the larger story your individual roles combine to tell. With the average career spanning over four decades, understanding how every strength you possess and job you take moves you along a path to success is up to you.

If you read nothing else on effectively managing your career, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you address classic challenges such as identifying your strengths, setting goals, and charting your course to recovering from burnout and disruption.

This book will inspire you to:

• Think deeply about who you are and what you want
• Identify your strengths and areas for development
• Keep your work and career in perspective
• Maintain a network to grow with you
• Manage your impact and visibility
• Weather unexpected changes

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.