Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 25, 2011

(This post was originally published on Venture Beat. This photo is by Melissa.). Brazen Careerist is my third startup. People ask me all the time why I gave up my position as CEO. If you knew what startup life was really like, you would ask me why I was CEO for as long as I was. When I started building the brand of Brazen Careerist around the year 2000, I talked about ideas like job hopping as a way to build a solid career, and I warned that generation Y’s entry into the workforce would be a tot

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Recently, a study revealed that knowing the ending of a book makes it more enjoyable to read. Sounds a little surprising, right? The researchers, Nicholas Christenfeld, a University of California, San Diego professor, and Jonathan Leavitt, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego studying psychology, tested readers to determine if “spoilers” really spoiled anything.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Photo by Andrew Magill When Charles Schwab became President of Bethlehem Steel in 1903, he made an unusual offer to his consultant, Ivy Lee: Show my staff and me a way to get more done in less time and I’ll pay you any fee within reason. Without batting an eyelid, Lee offered to give Schwab […]. The post The $100 Million Productivity Tip appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 23, 2011

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This is probably what you think self-employed looks like: I'm at an amusement park with my kids, in the middle of the week, and I'm on a conference call while I watch my son try to get on a ride. Being self-employed looks so nice at an amusement park. The self-employed are always free to go on a vacation. They pick up their friends at the airport in the middle of the day, they show up for poker night because they can stay out late, and they can plan their wedding without having to pret

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The best way to understand earning power—no matter what your age—is to understand the factors that go into it. For example, most people who have careers that are plateauing usually have a learning problem that manifests itself as an earning problem. And for parents, schooling discussions are really earning discussions. Because you can say that kids with a love of learning are lifelong learners ( essential for workplace success today ), but truly, who wants an unemployed Ph.D candidat

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 5, 2011

When I had my second son, I had a nervous breakdown. I’m not sure exactly what the cause was. But things were bad. I had a three-year-old with autism, a baby with a facial deformity that required a team of ten different types of doctors, and no family helping me, and I didn’t take maternity leave. This is what happened: I put a knife in my head. It’s a weird thing about the knife.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We have a huge vegetable garden. While the Farmer was planting huge crops of corn and hay, I was planting twenty types of vegetables. I have not bought vegetables from the store since May, when the first lettuce was ripe. This is a picture of me digging through our forty tomato plants. When I was putting them in the ground, I never dreamed that forty would really grow.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Last week was a board meeting for my company, Brazen Careerist. I used to hate the board meetings because there is so much to prepare beforehand, and if everything is not going great, then you have to really face that. 1. Hide your feelings if they are going to be trouble for someone. I am still a major shareholder in my company, but I do not work at the company day to day.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 20, 2011

If you earn your living as a creative professional, you’ll be familiar with what Todd Henry of Accidental Creative describes as “the pressure to be brilliant at a moment’s notice” While we can all do this from time to time, the key to success in a creative career is the ability to do it again […]. The post The Accidental Creative: an Interview with Todd Henry appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Creativity is exciting, but it’s also scary. Whenever you set out to do something new, you never know how it’s going to turn out – you can’t predict it, plan it, or control it. Creativity is inherently uncertain. We all know this, but most of the time we don’t talk about uncertainty. We try to […]. The post From Uncertainty to Creativity: an Interview with Jonathan Fields appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Photo by Szilveszter Farkas Once upon a time, I was frustrated on a daily basis by my computer. It kept crashing, refusing to connect to the internet, and interrupting me with asinine pop-up messages. It lost me hours of productivity every week. I rang the computer supplier. They blamed the parts supplier. I rang the […]. The post Just Work appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Live, work, travel. The motto of modern nomads – professionals who, carrying a laptop and a mobile, are able to do their work from almost any place in the world. Breathtaking nature sceneries… Tropical beaches… Hikes into the unknown… Exotic local cuisine… Strange cultures, people and languages… Huge vibrant cities… Places the others only dream […].

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Strategy+Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Sometimes people ask me how I get ideas for blog posts. Really, the question is how do I find enough time to let everyone know about everything that bugs me? For example, here are photos I’ve been holding onto for a while. It’s a series of the dumbest engagement photos ever. But wait. Before you click I’m going to tell you that they are actually someone’s real engagement photos.

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