ABSTRACT
When I ponder the state of the world today, as well as the state of research on careers, I am struck with the great progress we have made since 1989, when Michael Arthur, Barbara Lawrence, and I published the Handbook of Career Theory (Arthur et al., 1989). And the impressive works in this volume are certainly a testimony to that idea. But at the same time I have an uneasy sense that we as careers scholars have underappreciated the significance of the far greater contributions that we could be making.
