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How Getting Nothing Done Can Make You More Productive

Lateral Action

It also means no TV, radio, Internet, mobile phone, or entertainment of any kind. Apart from any effect on your career and your business, it will do you the world of good. The schedule and rules are designed to minimise not just fun and distractions but also productive activity.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

It would be so great, and helpful, if college career centers could be front and center in every student’s planning. But most career centers are useless, because most colleges presume you still need college to teach you how to think critically. So they can get away with having incompetent career centers. How does this help you?

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The nuts and bolts of building a brand | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

So the first change is that I added a section on my blog sidebar titled: My life disguised as career advice. I have found in my career that the only time I have a good job is when the person who manages me is happy with me. years, I have read this blog in spite of the career advice, not because of it. For the past 2.5

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How to put blog comments to good use | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Tweet This Facebook StumbleUpon Email this post to a friend Related Posts I'm moving out of New York City None of us has especially unique career trouble – not even Emily Gould Do you need a career coach or a shrink? Only one son chose farming as his career. That's gotta be a blow for any grown adult man.

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How to write about your life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

You do it behind a curtain with shadows, giving hints of it, but not giving too much detail. the career stuff is ok, but it feels like you write that when you are being boxed in by those around you. And if you ever do get a book deal that isn't career advice, shoot me a note. You are one of the best at doing doing this.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

And, people who manage their careers well end up paying more attention to a company’s reputation for caring about people and community than what any given job description is. One of the most important changes in work life is that we do not define our career by working for one company—we change jobs too frequently.

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