Innovation in a Reinvented World: 10 Essential Elements to Succeed in the New World of Business

Managing Your Personal Inflection Curve

As a career professional operating in the new world of business, you understand the importance of remaining in front of your inflection point curve by proactively managing the pieces that you directly control or indirectly influence.

You'll learn more about the moving parts of your personal inflection curve during the Web-based part of the training available at www.wiley.com/go/innovationreinvented.

For now, here is an overview of the three signposts that help determine when it's time for a career reinvention.

• Intuition
• Peripheral vision
• Connecting the dots

Intuition

Learning to listen to your intuition is key to knowing when it's time for you to reinvent yourself. But listening is different from taking action—learning how to trust your intuition can mean working a muscle that hasn't been used in years.

This is the time when you receive internal messages, what one workshop participant described as “internal churning” and others describe as excited anticipation. Some people notice more synchronous events happening in their lives: An idea will pop into their minds, and then they receive an invitation to an event that centers around this idea and pass by a bookstore (yes, they're still around), where they notice a book on this topic.

How you receive your inner messaging is about becoming aware of it so that you can choose how best to act or not act on the messages you receive.

Peripheral Vision

The second signpost associated with knowing when ...