Pivot with Jenny Blake

Yes, we—there is no way this would be possible without you here reading, and for that I am grateful beyond words. The Pivot Method will be published in hardcover by Portfolio/Penguin in early 2016, one of the top business and career imprints, and I could not be more thrilled! Their vision for the book blew me away, and I feel very lucky to be in such great hands over this next leg of the JB journe...

Cyber crimes are increasing at a staggeringly multi-exponential rate. Ignorance about our devices and online security is no longer acceptable; cyber crimes affect over 1.5 million victims per day. That’s 18 victims per second, 556 million victims per year, and over 600,000 compromised Facebook accounts per day. [Source] The recent Sony hack was so sophisticated the FBI says it would have gotten pa...

What does it take to find your Zone of Genius and stay there? What are the key ingredients to peak performance? What are the biggest barriers? If you think of your career as a car, what are the two biggest “headlights” that help you see clearly and do your best work? How can our challenges serve as fuel for opportunity? I had the pleasure of asking these questions to Laura Garnett, peak performanc...

For those of you considering hiring a virtual assistant in 2014, I cannot recommend it highly enough — this is easily one of the best things I did for my life and business last year. And yet, control freak that I am, I did not go down without a fight! For YEARS I had read all the books (4-hour Work Week chief among them), and knew the importance of delegating and not being a bottleneck. But each t...