Do you dream of other jobs, other places, other careers? Are you a leader who wants to make your organization as fluid as the world we live in today, or just ease the discomfort of those who look to you for help. Are you just starting out in the workplace, a woman trying to balance the competing claims of jobs and families, or a husband and father who worries that your success is won at the cost of your children? This book has a simple message: You don't have to be all things at once, but you can be everything you want to be. Chapters is a remarkable new approach to managingshy;shy;and masteringshy;shy;change. Whether you love your job or hate it, whether you long to live out a secret… yearning or just want to get more comfortable with the ever-shifting terrain of modern life, Chapters gives you a new way to think about living in today's new world, where constant, sweeping changes in our personal and professional lives often threaten to overwhelm us. Chapters is not about surviving change, or even simply coping with it, but instead learning to take charge of changeshy;shy;in Carpenter's words, to "dance with its rhythms"shy;shy;by living our lives serially, chapter by chapter. Just as each chapter of a book introduces different elements of plot while keeping to a central story line, so each chapter of our lives can be devoted to who we are, what we aspire to, and how we want to live while still keeping to the central narrative of our life. An accomplished change-master herself, Carpenter draws upon her own experiences as a successful CEO, entrepreneur, and cofounder of iVillage, as well as the lives of dozens of other people who, over time and through hard experience, have developed the capacity to master change and realize both professional and personal fulfillment. In Chapters, Carpenter suggests an approach to living that shows us how to cultivate, in each chapter of our lives, the internal fluidity needed for personal reinvention and for reaching the "Zone" of peak exhilaration and accomplishment. She offers concrete, step-by-step guidance for planning ahead for major changes, knowing when it's time to shift gears and embark on a new chapter, handling false starts and failures, and achieving true personal satisfaction over a lifetime. She shows how the Chapters model can be universally applied, not only to career planning and leadership in the workplace but equally well to personal relationships, marriages, and parenting in today's uncertain world. Empowering and inspiring, Chapters propels us ahead of the change curve toward sustained personal success and satisfaction over a lifetime.