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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium What to Ask Yourself Before a Career Pivot - Harvard Business Review    Gone are the days of picking a job or career path and sticking to it forever. Career pivots are far more common today than they ever were. For example, consider Oprah Winfrey’s transitions from TV anchor to superstar talk show host to film actress, producer, and media mogul. But how do you know if you’re ready for a change, or if your pivot is likely to be successful? The best thing you can do is to make an informed decision. Be clear about the motives you are trying to fulfill — especially changes to your professional self or identity — and scrutinize the pros and cons of available options vis-à-vis your skills, interests, and personality. Finding the balance between an open-minded desire to experiment and a strategic focus, and being honest with yourself when you evaluate the outcome of your choices, will enable you to keep advancing and developing your potential. This article offers a list of questions to ask yourself as you consider a career pivot, to help orient you in the process of evaluating your needs. When the Vatican commissioned the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was a highly regarded sculptor who had not yet produced any paintings. Luckily for the Vatican — and for Michelangelo — the gamble paid off: his first commissioned painting turned out one of the most majestic art works in history, visited by 6 million people each year. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done - Harvard Business Review    The next time you are filling a leadership role, ask yourself three questions. First, does the candidate have the skills to be a high-performing contributor or the skills to be an effective leader? The performance level of individual contributors is measured largely through their ability, likability, and drive. Leadership, by contrast, demands a broader range of character traits, including high levels of integrity. Second, can you really trust this candidate’s individual performance measures? The number one indicator of performance in most companies is a single subjective rating by a direct manager. This makes measures of performance vulnerable to bias. Finally, are you looking forward or backward? The secret to selecting great leaders is to predict the future, not to reward the past. That’s why you should promote high-potential people, not just top performers. Fifty years have passed since the publication of The Peter Principle, but its rule still applies today. “In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties,” noted Laurence J. Peter, the educator behind this famous work. His theory postulates that most competent people are promoted until they reach a position that is above their skill level, at which point they cease to grow. Continued here Activists call it rescue. Farms call it stealing. What is 'open rescue'? - Animals    A new generation of animal welfare activists argue that U.S. state bystander laws give them the right to save animals in distress—including those in factory farms. The light of a headlamp slices through the dark, illuminating hundreds of sows, side by side in crates. In the pitch black, they shriek and squirm in clanking metal cages. In March 2017, five activists entered Circle Four Farms, an industrial pig farm in Utah owned by Smithfield Foods, one of the largest pork producers in the world.  Continued here

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