Transition Expertise and Identity
A Study of Individuals Who Succeeded Repeatedly in Life and Career Transitions

Applied insight into how businesspeople, sportspeople, and musicians make repeated successful career transitions to senior levels.

Christopher Connolly (Author), Fernand Gobet (Author)

9781009100175, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 June 2024

430 pages
23.6 x 15.9 x 2.9 cm, 0.79 kg

Through a systematic review of relevant literature and an analysis of in-depth interviews with key expert performers, this book examines the nature of expertise that enables individuals to make repeated successful transitions over the course of their career. Focusing on business, sports, and music, it examines the roles of motivation, cognitive flexibility, personal intelligence, generative thinking, and contextual intelligence in this process. It further shows how identity changes and adapts during a career transition and how self concept evolves over the course of a career. This book has wide appeal for academics in psychology, sports, music, and business, as well as coaches, mentors, talent management, and training organisations across these domains.

Preface: is there such a thing as transition expertise?
Introduction
1. Introduction: career transitions in expert performers
Part I. Transitions: 2. Career stage transitions: a work life cycle review
3. The expert transition cycle: the process of change in a transition
4. Intelligence, cognition, and expertise: as they inform transition expertise
Part II. Transition Expertise: 5. Cognitive flexibility: mental adaptation and evolution
6. Generative intelligence: the intelligence of change
7. Personal intelligences: awareness of self and others in transitions
8. Contextual intelligence: utilizing the environment in transitions
Part III. Motivation: 9. Motivation: the intrinsic organization of choice
10. Purpose: motivation informing meaning
Part IV. The Project of the Self: 11. Identity: its adaption during the expert transition cycle
12. Self concept: its evolution during career stage transitions
Conclusion
13. Conclusion: findings and future opportunities
Appendices
Appendix 1: methodology
Appendix 2: Non-transitions.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]