Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

April 25, 2007 from Harvard Business School – “Most people at one time or another feel as if they are just spinning their wheels, unable to gain traction either in career or in life. This feeling of being stuck in one place, while troubling, is part of a necessary crisis leading to personal growth, says Dr. Timothy Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "

180 View (written by Lawrence Young) – How often do you feel that you are ‘stuck in the mud’? What do you do when the challenge you face seems overwhelming and insurmountable? When was the last time you approached a difficult problem by truly thinking ‘outside the box’?

In this Harvard Business School article, HBS’s Timothy Butler shares with us his six-step approach to getting ‘unstuck’. He tells us how to determine when we’ve really ‘hit the wall’, and more importantly, how to get beyond the impasse we face both at work and at home.

If you find yourself making the same mistakes over and over again, or if you simply have difficulty managing change in your life, this article is a must read for you. It was even an eye-opener in certain places for a change management consultant with 30+ years of experience like me.