CHAPTER 10
ADVANCED COACHING: COACHING AND CAREER TRANSITIONS
Anne Scoular and Charles Glass
Freud said only two things really matter – love and work.
When he wrote that, about 100 years ago, average life expectancy was around 50,1 meaning a working life of perhaps 35 years. Now, with average life expectancy approaching 100 for the young, and not much less for those currently mid-career, we might be at work for more than six decades.2
It will seem even longer for those who are miserable. Or just unfulfilled, or bored. But by contrast there really are people who love their work, who would do it even if they weren’t paid, who are lit up with pleasure when talking about it. These are the people studied by Herminia Ibarra and described in her book ...
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