This book has already been one of the established classics about life and career. In the introduction, Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau explain the meaning of boundaryless career.
The boundaryless career does not characterize any single career form, but, rather, a range of possible forms that defies traditional employment assumptions. Accordingly, the term boundaryless distinguishes our concept from the previous one -- the “bounded,” or organizational, career. (kindle ver No. 78)
The old typed career was “bounded” in the organization which an employee belongs to. Of course, there were many career changes before 1990s, many employees didn’t think their career across companies. On the other hand, new career which was seen after 1990s has not been “bounded”. Whether we like it or not, we have to be faced on the boundaryless career in order to seek for our career opportunities.
It is said that the boundaryless career was born in Silicon Valley. In chapter 2, Annalee Saxenian explains it precisely. The viewpoint from individuals is cited as below.
The region’s engineers developed loyalties to each other and to advancing technology, rather than to individual firms or even industries. In the words of the cofounder of LSI Logic: “Here in Silicon Valley there’s far greater loyalty to one’s craft than to one’s company. A company is just a vehicle which allows you to work. If you’re a circuit designer it’s morst important for you to do excellent work. If you can’t in one firm, you’ll move on to another one.” (kindle ver No. 450)
It is necessary for employees to seek for their boundaryless career in Silicon Valley. And also, such boundaryless career is important for Silicon Valley to be enriched as a labor market. Then, it is beneficial for the companies to take boundaryless career policy.
The blurring of the boundaries between firms provides a regional advantage for Silicon Valley. Open labor markets allow individuals and firms to experiment and to learn by continually recombining local knowledge, skills, and technology. And the resilience of the regional economy suggests that the learning advantages of open labor markets -- when embedded in a rich fabric of social relationships -- outweigh their costs. Silicon Valley’s professional networks minimize the search and switching costs incurred by high rates of interfirm mobility. (kindle ver No. 597)
What is recommended in this new coming situation? Karl E. Weick tells us one of the assumptions in chapter 3.
Career success comes to be defined in terms of things like amount of learning accumulated; meaningfulness of continuities constructed; ability to create and manage organizing; comfort in returning to the novice role over and over; ability to explicate what had previously been known only tacitly; tolerance for fragmentary experience; skill in making sense of fragments retrospectively in ways that help others make sense of their fragments; willingness to improvise, and skill at doing so; persistence; compassion for others struggling with the uncertainties of a boundaryless life; and durable faith that actions will have made sense, even though that sense is currently not evident. People skilled in these ways are likely to find a series of challenging projects that, when strung together, simulate traditional advancement. (kindle ver No. 886)
It is also important for us to think about what Philip H. Mirvis and Douglas T. Hall suggest in chapter 14.
The practical and psychological benefits of seeing careers in terms of repeated developmental cycles could be substantial. (kindle ver No. 3725)
Clearly, it will be important to study how and when people learn to adapt to change in a career marked by several cycles. (kindle ver No. 3745)
The boundaryless career challenges people to make sense of and integrate many more stimuli and experiences into their sense of self. (kindle ver No. 3783)
Mark L. Savickas, “Career Counseling”
Luck is no accident 2nd edition（John D. Krumboltz, Impact Publishers, 2010）
“Creative Decision Making –Using Positive Uncertainty- ”(Gelatt, H.B. and Gelatt, Carol ,Crisp Series, 2003)
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