Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

Jenny Blake is a career and business strategist as well as an international speaker who helps people develop long-term, dynamic professions that they like. She left UCLA after studying political science and communications to become the first employee of a Silicon Valley political polling start-up. She then went to Google, where she spent five years training and developing her career while also publishing her first book, Life After College. Jenny quit Google in 2011 to focus solely on her consultancy firm.

Congratulations on finding the ideal career or business. However, if you are even slightly unsure that your current job is the correct one for you, it is time to start planning your next move. It's the only move that matters in the new world of work.

What comes next? In an economy where the typical work duration is barely four years, positions change continuously even within that period, and talented, ambitious people find themselves reaching professional plateaus, this is a question we must all ask and answer more frequently. But how can you weigh your options and move on without becoming bogged down? Jenny Blake's answer: It's all about modest steps, not gigantic leaps, and the solution is just under your feet. Pivot will teach you how to pivot using your existing capabilities as a foundation.

For Silicon Valley tech corporations and startups, pivoting is a critical strategy. Jenny Blake, a former Google training and career development specialist who now runs her own company as a career and business consultant and speaker, demonstrates how pivoting can be a successful strategy for individuals looking to make changes in their work lives, whether within their role, organization, or business, or aiming for bigger shifts.

When you pivot, you build on your existing abilities and interests to go in a new, related path, rather than looking so far outside of yourself for answers that you overlook your hard-earned expertise and experience. It enables you to negotiate changes with agility and strength—both now and throughout your career.

Pivoting, like the lean business principles that have taken Silicon Valley by storm, is a critical ability you need to stay nimble, whether or not you are actively seeking for a new job.

Jenny's counsel can help you move forward strategically regardless of your age, industry, or bank account status. Among the best books every key account manager should read, the book about her Pivot Method will teach you how to do the following:

• Increase your existing strengths, interests, and experiences. Determine what works best and where you want to go, then begin to bridge the gap between the two.
• Scan for new chances and talents without succumbing to analysis paralysis or compare and despair.
• Explore choices by leveraging your existing network and experience, and conduct small experiments to decide future steps. Do side projects to test ideas for your next step, relieving the burden of having to have the whole answer right away.
• Take calculated chances in order to confidently begin in a new direction. Set benchmarks to determine whether it is time to go all-in on your new path.

Pivot also contains useful information for leaders who want to conduct more frequent career talks with their teams in order to help outstanding employees pivot within their roles and the larger organization.

Whatever your current position, one thing is certain: your ability to choose your next best move is critical to your career success and satisfaction. If the only constant is change, let's get better at it.

Author: Jenny Blake

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