Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

by Jenny Blake

Just because these circumstances didn’t work out it is not a judgment on you as a person; there are other opportunities around the corner.”

If you experience failure fallout, mine the wreckage for underlying strengths and key lessons. Transform failure by returning to the Plant and Scan stages as you evaluate experiences that did not unfold as planned.

well anchored to your strengths, vision, and work history.

You can either go emotionally broke running around trying to please everyone, or you can spend your time creating, being authentic to your own needs and desires, then serving others from that full place.

People pleasing is exhausting. It is inauthentic. It means placing everyone else’s needs above your own.

You cannot make everyone happy all the time, and it is futile to try. You are no good to anyone if you run yourself ragged trying to please everyone.

You have a choice: you can spend your time ceaselessly worrying about other people or you can b...

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five Most Important People.

making a short list of those who really matter in your life, or as she puts it, “would help you move a body.”

Difficult Launch conversations have five distinct parts: 1. Making the decision based on your gut instinct. 2. Figuring out how to express the difficult decision in words, clearly and directly. 3. Deciding when to have the conversation. 4. Communicating the decision to the other(s) involved. 5. Responding to their reaction and any ensuing consequences or follow-up.

DON’T WAIT FOR PERFECT CONDITIONS

paying attention to practicalities while not neutering yourself or your dreams.

you first need to determine what worked means for you.

Impacters rarely operate in a vacuum.

When you hire great people, some of them may come to realize that there is a world beyond yours. This isn’t a bad thing, in fact it’s an inevitable by-product of a healthy, innovative team. Still, fight like hell to keep them. —Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, How Google Works

Are you creating an environment where people feel comfortable sharing their best ideas and career aspirations with you?

“For every opportunity you get, help open a door for someone else.”

“You don’t always have to go up, you can go across,”

What is your organization already doing that is working? What would success look like in terms of creating a culture of engagement and mobility?

What are other managers, teams, departments, or outside organizations doing that interests you? What ideas stand out as particularly achievable or that would make the biggest impact? Who else could you partner with inside or outside of the organization?

What small experiments could you try with one team or department before rolling out to the entire organization? How will you evaluate these pilots?

What resources would be required for a bigger launch in terms of time, team, and tools? When would you launch this program, and how would you measure its success?

Do not wait until you have the perfect solution to try something that sounds interesting;

Your biggest vision is worth pursuing.

Life does not give us what we want; it gives us what we need. Pivots work the same way.

build first, then your courage will follow.