Blake - Pivot: the only move that matters is your next one

Pivot is a book you will turn to again and again, whether youre seeking a new career direction, a second career after retirement, or just on the lookout for new ways to use your talents. Jenny Blake takes a strength-based approach to managing the risk that comes with making a change, and provides tons of helpful examples and exercises.

Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive

Nontraditional career journeys are not only the new normal, theyre how innovators throughout history changed their world and ours. With actionable insights and lucid prose, Jenny Blake illuminates the path to building your own destiny.

Shane Snow, author of Smartcuts and cofounder of Contently

Wondering what your next move is? Read this book! Jenny Blake is one of the wisest and freshest voices on the subject of career development, and this is her best work yet. In Pivot, you will hear the good news: that you can get paid to do what you love. It may not look like what you thought, and it may require some personal growth, but you can find the work you were meant to do. You just have to pivot.

Jeff Goins, author of The Art of Work

Are the tectonic plates below your sturdy career suddenly splitting into a deep abyss of unknown? Let this book be your rope ladder out.

Neil Pasricha, author of The Happiness Equation and the 1,000 Awesome Things blog

If you think life is a highway, then youve got it wrong. Its more like a winding path through an unpredictable forest. Not only do you have to wade the swamp and battle the beasts, but time after time you come to a crossroads. Left? Right? Straight ahead? Jenny Blakes new book will help you find the wisdom and resources to make the best choices, move into the sunlight, and end up where you want to be.

Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and Do More Great Work

We live in a time of rapid evolution, and we develop skills quickly now by absorbing many shorter term work experiences, so we can become what Jenny Blake calls impacters in our careers. This book gives you a solid roadmap to making the right call about career changes that will help you discover what youre truly built for. Courage, consciousness, and competencethats what Pivot offers you. Its excellent!

Penney Peirce, author of The Intuitive Way , Frequency , and Leap of Perception

The book is fantastic. No matter where you are in your career, Pivot is provokingly relevant.

Dr. Tom Guarriello, founder of RoboPsych and founding faculty at New Yorks School of Visual Arts, Masters in Branding

Today, the average person has eleven jobs and three to six careers, which is why Pivot is essential reading for every professional. Let Jenny be your coach, giving you the confidence and tools required to make your next career transition. Whether youre an employee, freelancer, or entrepreneur, this book will help you identify the skills you have or need that will lead to your next opportunity. Jenny has been through career transitions and has successfully navigated them on her own, which makes her the perfect spokesperson for helping you do the same. Pivot is the book that youll need to read multiple times through your life because change is constant and often times unexpected!

Dan Schawbel, author of Promote Yourself and Me 2.0

Whether youre considering a career change or job change, or figuring out what to do next, Jenny Blakes Pivot is the book you need. Its a comprehensive, practical, must-have guide to your pivot.

Susan RoAne, keynote speaker and author of How to Work a Room

Portfolio / Penguin

An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

375 Hudson Street

New York, New York 10014

Copyright 2016 by Jenny Blake

Illustrations by ABC Design Lab, copyright 2016 by Jenny Blake.

Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.

LIBRARY OF CON GRESS CATALOGING - IN - PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Blake, Jenny, author.

Title: Pivot : the only move that matters is your next one / Jenny Blake.

Description: New York : Portfolio, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016011437 | ISBN 9781591848202 (hardback) | ISBN 9780698406704 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399564383 (international edition)

Subjects: LCSH: Career development. | Career changes. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational.

Classification: LCC HF5381 .B455 2016 | DDC 650.14dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011437

Version_1

To my grandma Janice Deino, who pivoted her entire life at eighty years old with strength and grace. You are an unwavering source of support and inspiration, and the most agile, resilient person I know. Thank you for everything.

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave....

So you must not be frightened... if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet