Penelope Trunk
APRIL 13, 2012
You do not need to have a life full of passion. What is that life, anyway? You probably don’t even know what passion is. But if you really thought about what you were aiming for when you talk about passion and careers, eventually you’d get to the idea of engagement. This is not a controversial thought: that you would want to be engaged in your work.
Eat Your Career
APRIL 17, 2012
One of the most common complaints I hear has to do with something that is so fundamentally a part of the modern workplace, it’s almost impossible to avoid. Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded interruption. We all have to deal with it, though admittedly, some have it worse than others. A client of mine recently shared her very frustrating situation. You see, due to the office layout, her desk was out in the open, right by the front door, making her a sitting duck.
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Lateral Action
APRIL 26, 2012
Many of us have love/hate relationships with our smartphones. On the one hand, it’s amazing to have so much media and so many gadgets and connections at our fingertips – news, sports, weather, blog feeds, photos, videos, music, calculators, voice recognition, encyclopedias, dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn… and of course, email.
Penelope Trunk
APRIL 10, 2012
I have been railing against grad school for a long time, and I’m starting to believe that you should leave grad school off your resume if you are not working in the field you studied. Here are five reasons why putting grad school on your resume makes you look bad. (And at the end of this post, there’s a game plan for what to do with any gap you’ll have when you remove grad school from your resume.). 1.
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Penelope Trunk
APRIL 27, 2012
In the airport a fight attendant said to my six-year-old son, “Where are you going today?”. He said, “California.”. She said, “You’re a lucky boy!”. He said, “Actually, I’m really tired of going to airports with my mom.”. This is because I’ve been taking him on all my business trips. And he is learning something important about business travel: It’s really, really hard to do a lot of it, and you need a strategy.
Eat Your Career
APRIL 4, 2012
On a recent free coaching call , I heard from a loyal blog reader who was feeling distraught. In a nutshell, her situation was this: After interviewing for almost six months, she thought it as a “sure thing” that she’d be offered a new position in her department. Then, as if from nowhere, an external candidate was selected for the role. After all the time and energy she had committed to this, she was left feeling frustrated, demotivated and betrayed.
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Eat Your Career
APRIL 9, 2012
Today, I’d like to address the age-old question of education and employment. What’s the correlation? And, given today’s economy, how much does education matter? Unfortunately, the answer isn’t perfectly clear. I hear from a lot of people who are unemployed or underemployed, and they always want to know: Should I take advantage of this time by going back to school?
Lateral Action
APRIL 16, 2012
Image by Radhika Bhagwat Are you spending the majority of your time keeping up with business-related tasks rather than creating? Are you lacking the passion you once felt for your business? Is your creative time continually being pushed to the back burner? If you answered ‘yes’ to the above questions, I’m guessing you’re feeling a […].
Eat Your Career
APRIL 6, 2012
In case you missed it, I held my free coaching call for the month of April earlier this week. You can listen to the recorded version using the audio player below. Please Note: We’ll me taking the month of May off due to a few big projects I have in the works. If you’d like to participate in the next call happening Thursday, June 7 , please register and submit a question by visiting this page.
Penelope Trunk
APRIL 23, 2012
Last month I gave a speech at the Natural Products Expo in California, and I took my son with me. Everyone’s an entrepreneur in my family, and my son’s first thought was that this would be a good way to expand his egg business. He knows the eggs he gets from our chicken coop garner a high price from natural food types. “This isn’t where you sell regular food,” I tell him. “This is more like a convention for processed natural food.
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Penelope Trunk
APRIL 16, 2012
Sheryl Sandberg, the woman who runs Facebook , has said that the most important career choice you’ll make is who you marry. I have to agree with this statement. Here’s why: If you marry someone with a big career and you want to have a big career you have to find that rare mate who can treat you as an equal, even when your career needs to come first.
Penelope Trunk
APRIL 2, 2012
Melissa’s in China, which means I have to wake up at four in the morning to talk, which means we have no phone calls, and her emails are unsatisfyingly delayed. I miss her. She is with Steven , who I think is buying her a ring. Going to China with Steven was a good idea because men love being in a foreign country with a woman who can speak the language.
Penelope Trunk
APRIL 25, 2012
The novel Fifty Shades of Grey is selling faster than a Harry Potter book right now. The book is about sexual domination in a contemporary setting, including the career woman who has everything, including a hot, successful boyfriend. The big news is that we have enough data to show that the majority of women buying Fifty Shades of Gray are in their 20s and 30s living in urban areas, according to the publisher’s data, and the Atlantic.
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