For my February book, I selected Managing Transitions by William Bridges.  I received the book for free from work almost 2 years ago.  We were supposed to have meetings about change.  Of course priorities changed, and we never did have those meetings.  I put the book on my bookshelf and basically forgot about it.  I was looking at my bookshelf to and the name just jumped out to me.  Since I’d never read it and it’s very applicable right now, I thought it would make a perfect book for my goal of Being More Awesome.

The book feels like it’s geared more towards managers than individual contributors.  It’s not really a problem.  I’ve read other books for managers and taken lessons from them to apply to my individual contributor role.

I did find the quotes on the side interesting.  I enjoyed reading them, yet at the same time they sometimes became distracting.  I’m glad they didn’t appear on every page.

I’m really glad I read the book.  I felt it’s helped empower me with questions to ask my management and things to look for while experiencing a very significant change and transition at work.