The Portable Executive: Building Your Own Job Security from Corporate Dependency to Self-Direction

The downsizing of America – once thought to be a temporary cost-cutting measure to boost profit margins – has brought a swift end to the era of lifetime employment. Given the fact that these terminations are nationwide, affect every industry, and are usually neither fault-based nor predictable, no executive is immune.

Based on interviews with over 100 now-portable executives who were among the first casualties of downsizing, The Portable Executive explores the unlimited opportunities available to those who are independent, self-directed, and willing to work on a contract basis. It explains:

How to make a smooth transition to becoming portable

How to identify, continually update, and market your skills

Why companies that downsize full-time employees are willing to hire executives on an as-needed basis

How and why the relationship between employers and executives has changed from boss/worker to peer/peer

And much more – including how to invent a business, what to charge clients, how to network, market, and sell yourself as a personal service business entity, and, most important, how to enjoy a greater sense of creativity, satisfaction, and long-term job security than ever before.