How disruptive these times of reorientation will be during your career is determined by two things: first, the inherent importance of the change that triggers them; and, second, whether they coincide with a time when a developmental shift is occurring within you. Losing your job, for example, will always create a big change, but if it occurs when relatively little “developmental business” is going on inside you, it will simply be a practical problem that you have to solve. A much smaller change—not getting a promotion you had hoped for, for example—can have a larger impact on you if it occurs
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