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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

" A lot of people don't care about doing good, they care about money or their family or career advancement. They are just doing it because it improves their profits and if any of these initiatives reduced their profits, they would be the first ones to cut them out. A lot of people care about power.

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You should lead from the middle | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

I published a book in 2002 entitiled "Leading People from the Middle." who don't give a rat's ass whether other people are doing things our way, so long as they leave us alone and let us do what WE want to do? Posted by Tzipporah on January 13, 2010 at 6:06 pm | permalink | Reply Good threads!

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Frugality is a career tool | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

." Whether this frugality helps you career, I don't know, but it does make your life better :-) - Al Posted by Al Lee on February 2, 2010 at 6:39 pm | permalink | Reply How come a leased BMW is for career advancement, but a graduate degree, is 'keeping with the joneses'? That logic is weird.

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We overestimate the gap between nonprofit and for-profit jobs.

Penelope Trunk

So is prestige, career advancement, power, etc. This presumes that a for-profit project is self-interested, while a not-for-profit project isn't. This disregards the fact that money is only one form of self-interest. The idea that only non-profits are worthy of donated money is silly.

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List of things I hate #3 | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Not only will you have missed career opportunities but you will be out of the loop while you are out studying your navel. which is what all us parents are doing on our paid maternity leave) Having children and paid meternity leave is not career advancement. What's fair about that?

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