The 2017 Clarendon Lectures in Management were delivered by Herminia Ibarra, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.
The days of people working for a single company throughout their careers are largely over. We are increasingly seeing people not just making career changes, but making them more frequently and making bigger changes.
Partly this is because our working lives are getting too long for the old model of learning, working, and then retiring. Ibarra said that the typical ‘mid-career “Aha moment”’ is now less about feeling ‘It’s now or never’ than about ‘I can’t stand doing this for another 30 years’. In addition, technology is changing not only how we do our jobs, but how we research, apply and interview for them.
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