From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change

Quit being the person you’re “supposed” to be.

by

Vijay Govindarajan

and

Hylke Faber

by

Vijay Govindarajan

and

Hylke Faber

May 23, 2016

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change. Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers. Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.

Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, an executive fellow at Harvard Business School, and faculty partner at the Silicon Valley incubator Mach 49. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His latest book is Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future . His Harvard Business Review articles “Engineering Reverse Innovations” and “Stop the Innovation Wars” won McKinsey Awards for best article published in HBR. His HBR articles “How GE Is Disrupting Itself” and “The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention” are HBR all-time top-50 bestsellers. Follow him on LinkedIn.
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Hylke Faber is the author of Taming Your Crocodiles (Dover Publications), and leads the coaching and facilitation organizations Constancee and the Growth Leaders Network. Faber also serves as faculty director for the Columbia Business School Executive Education Leader as Coach programs.

From Accountant to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change

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