Setting a personal career direction.

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In summary, we believe that both you and your organization should have a set of core values, a well-defined mission (core purpose), and a vision of the future. Ideally, your projects and activities should be congruent with your mission and values, you should be pursuing your vision, and all of this should be congruent with the organization mission and values. Practically speaking, most individuals we have worked with over the years find themselves in two different groups at this point in the exercise. The minority find that their personal mission is not at all similar to the mission of their current organization and they find it necessary to seriously reevaluate their personal career direction. Sometimes, this results in them finding some other place to work. On the other hand, the majority discover their personal mission is in reasonable agreement with that of their organization. For both, this exercise has helped them clarify and better manage their personal career direction.

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Author/s: McCurdy, Fredrick A (FA); Marcdante, Karen (K);

Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-2184, USA. famccurd@unmc.edu

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of cardiovascular management : the official journal of the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (J Cardiovasc Manag), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2003 Mar-Apr; vol 14 (issue 2) : pp 18-21

Dates: Created 2003/04/14; Completed 2003/05/01; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12690951, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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