Pivot
Jenny Blake · 2016
Career change no longer means leaping blindly off a cliff. Jenny Blake's Pivot gives you a four-stage method to methodically design your next move from a position of strength, treating your career like an iterative experiment rather than a one-shot bet.
A step-by-step method for making a successful career pivot from a position of strength.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Pivot pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.
- Pivot from strength, not desperation: the best time to plan your next move is while your current role is still going well, so you can build on what's already working instead of fleeing what isn't.
- Anchor in a One-Year Vision, not a lifelong 'purpose': skip the paralyzing search for your one true calling and instead define a vivid 1-2 year picture grounded in your values, strengths, and the impact you want now.
- Use the 'Riskometer' to aim for your stretch zone: target work that feels challenging and energizing (stretch), not numbingly safe (comfort/stagnation) or terrifyingly oversized (panic).
The other 4 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.
- Why Everyone Needs to Pivot Now
- The Four-Stage Method
- Plant: Build Your Foundation
- Scan: Explore and Connect
- Pilot: Test Before You Leap
- The Riskometer: Calibrating Your Move
- Launch: Commit with Confidence
- Lead: Helping Others Pivot
Finish Pivot tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 10 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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