Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2009

If you’re wondering, some of the posts that brought in more than 400 comments are: Five time management tricks I learned from Tim Ferriss I hate David Dellifield. When I first started doing this top-posts-of-the-year thing, I felt obligated to actually give you the real version of what was most popular. Now I don’t feel so obligated.

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JULY 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Befriend the intern to fire up your career Posted to: Networking | Promoting Yourself July 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us Think of quitting as a networking event. I'd imagine all these apply, especially the network bit, but would you add anything?

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JANUARY 8, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 8 Tips for anger management Posted to: Office Politics | Parenting | Self-management January 8th, 2010 Del.icio.us But I am working on anger management. Here are seven tips I've tried using: 1. Face the problem and make it a priority.

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APRIL 26, 2010

So I'll be waiting to be motivated. I really respect Seth Godin and am anxious to hear what he has to say, but I also think you're going to come up with some great questions and I can't wait to hear what they are. One thing Seth does really well is to convey ideas succinctly and with enthusiasm. The one from Ada, Ohio.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

There are no bad bosses The easiest instructions for how to start a blog Comments (66) Leave a Comment Good question/ test to check how relevant the original motivation(s) is(are)! Our best literature was written by people with nothing to lose and a voracious internal motivation to communicate their take on the world with written words.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 4 Types of questions get us in trouble Posted to: Interviewing | Knowing yourself | Networking October 12th, 2009 Del.icio.us I need to refer to a manager if the client wants more discussion? So I actually don’t know why we link to Facebook.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to take intelligent risks Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Finding a career | Quitting | Self-management September 29th, 2010 Del.icio.us The best risk takers are in fields like entrepreneurship, hedge fund management, and excavation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How I improved my morning routine Posted to: Time management September 13th, 2010 Del.icio.us The house manager arrived at the house shortly after I got the kids to school and recommended some wine as a way to cope. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Thanks for the reminder and motivation. Then, like a bolt out of the blue, I decided that this time, I'd make a list of phrases beginning with the words, "I want to…" It really helped me focus on what my motivations were for the changes I wanted to make. Great post. The one from Ada, Ohio.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

It's change – something I can always count on but not always regulate so I manage it to the best of my ability. And sure, your alienation and that frustrating loss of direction and motivation hurts just as much physical pain does, and gets in the way of better intentions. And so I agree with Amy Parmenter.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Then he says this type of cattle is very tall and really hard to manage. " But they didn't manage to sell to hardly any Chinese. "But they didn't manage to sell to hardly any Chinese." The farmer shakes his head and laughs. They jump fences and crash into short, unsuspecting bystanders. Posted by P.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

This gives us a visual for the lack of interest Gen X has in Baby Boomer style managment: McMansions for sale with no buyers. If you inspire someone to do a good job you've internally motivated them and they'll likely exceed your expectations. Leadership style is generational. Subscribe -- free! Damn skippy.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

Posted by Red on July 10, 2010 at 8:38 am | permalink | Reply Penelope, you've made some good points re: the LeBron saga and what motivated him to relocate; perhaps when those in Cleveland and elsewhere take a break from burning his uni, they might consider what they themselves would do in a similar situation. I think I agree.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 15, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Underrated career skill: Asking questions Posted to: Managing Up | Networking December 15th, 2009 Del.icio.us One of the women I manage gets to me because she doesn't ask questions very often or asks really poorly thought out ones.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It's really dangerous to think there are vastly different motivators in the non-profit world. You'll notice that in the for-profit world, in the new workplace, money is not a key motivator. Caring for each other has more to do about the people who we report to and manage than the goals of the organization.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You write interesting things in a unique voice that somehow manages to be both hilarious and quite serious all at once. Your passion will motivate you because motivation is driven by emotion. … Although you may not have a carnivorous drive to eat your mate – um, I mean close the sale, you ARE a very talented writer.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last week at a breakfast networking event, I didn't recognize the woman sitting next to me…ack. I am "hidden" far away from from management as possible (in a different building from the rest of my department.) So, the manager interviewed me while sitting at the oyster bar sitting in the back of the store.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

Being able to do the former is the difference between being a leader and a manager. I think it's important to not make people feel bad or stupid when they ask questions – intimidation doesn't motivate learning. It was forming as they asked it or became more clear while they were forming it (out loud).

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Inspiration and motivation are the factors that differentiate a leader from a boss, in my opinion. " I try to do my best work no matter where I am, but on more than one occasion I have been struck by how much better my best can be when I have a good and inspiring manager/boss/professor. Actually, we had an assistant in office.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Almost a review of Seth Godin's book, Linchpin Posted to: Career fulfillment | Self-management February 15th, 2010 Del.icio.us So manage his expectations at least in the "I may be a flake dept.,yet I read it on the farmer’s sofa.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Your career is only as strong as your network! on November 30, 2009 at 10:24 am | permalink | Reply This post makes me feel better about being the office marketing writer/online content manager and infamous introvert. Let’s do lunch! link] Posted by Alex Lickerman, MD. These are great links.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

This is true of how to network , how to parent , how to manage people and also how to write about your life. How you manage personal relationships. This is true of how to network, how to parent, how to manage people and also how to write about your life." Pull yourself out of it and you're networking.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Next step: Start milking your significant other's network of contacts since they are already impressed with you. Your will be a better manager. Posted by Ask a Manager on October 28, 2009 at 1:28 am | permalink | Reply Men appreciate natural beauty. That includes managers at work. no Did it make him a better manager?

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

For example, I think maybe I went overboard in my comment, in a discussion about whether I am managing my personal brand well. Posted by Marshall Wayne on December 29, 2009 at 4:34 am | permalink | Reply Five years ago, my wife announced she wanted to separate and I got canned from my job managing software testers, all within a few weeks.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

By the time you're close, you are so motivated to get there that it doesn't feel like work at all. That being said, money management is also a relative thing. When we see the big triumph its easy to get all motivated, but small things are which we need to keep on doing inspite of them being the most difficult to do.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

And if you think management in corporate life is an exception, you’re wrong. This brings to mind an article in a Men's Health I read regarding Intrinsic Motivation. Intrinsic motivation is when you do something because you love it, or have a passion for it, and because of that motivation, you do it better.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Even if I manage to do that, I will not feel like I have accomplished something important today. Make a plan to manage your success 3 great time management strategies I'm failing at Comments (148) Leave a Comment Not soporiferous at all (A very interesting word btw; 'sopor' meaning sleep and 'ferous' meaning savage.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Trend watch: HR, texting, needlepoint Posted to: Self-management May 30th, 2010 Del.icio.us Good managers will do their own recruiting by having their own great network. Is this your first time here? This used to happen all the time.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Ryan Paugh , our community manager, calls me to say that he thinks I need to start having someone look at what I post in the group before I post it. I manage a small hotel and won't bother you. Later he says, “I think you need to stop posting stuff in your group for today.” You don't just need a vacation; you deserve one.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tweet This Facebook StumbleUpon Email this post to a friend Related Posts Twentysomething: The safe route is overrated Sometimes finding a job is a mixed blessing 5 overlooked rules of management TIME Magazine mentioned my blog. I have a blog but I have trouble managing it and getting other people to find me in the blogasphere.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I feel an urgent need to separate a sane online conversation about women at work from an insane media that is doing exactly what destroys women at work: Making it extremely difficult for me to have a manageable schedule for parenting. Your themes and motivations are very consistent. Subscribe -- free!

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

People think their work situation is so complicated and I have to understand all the motivators. I've used it to help me manage my subconscious mind's attitudes and beliefs, and I've made a lot of progress with it. He tells me that I have a problem and I need to get over it. It doesn't matter where you put the sofa.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Now I've gotten it down to 49, which feels much more manageable. These kids need to turn off the Social Networks and read a book because school won't help them. This Multitasking Generation is not only obsessed with staying constantly connected, but puts the onus on their social network to entertain them via constant pings.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Management consultant Frans Johansson found that in the case of a startup, there is no time for conflict because there are too many decisions that have to be made very quickly. It is quite difficult to motivate me on a Sunday but you have me thinking hard and reading like crazy. But this is not true for small, fast-moving startups.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Nor does having a "house manager" @Penelope You are many things but do you really, honestly believe you are frugal? I needed the motivation! Frugality forces you to manage time and resources wisely, and it's important to practice it for your career. I try to tell people, everyone has the same 24 hours in a day.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Don't hide what really motivates you; secretive people are not likable. I need help from a blog community to figure out my anger management problems. Posted by MZA on January 6, 2010 at 10:12 am | permalink | Reply Yes, it's called "Good Eats" and it's on the Food network. Well, I think we do.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You have a house-manager to handle the details of running your home, and a nanny to handle the details of minding your kids, so hiring an editor to handle the details of your professional writing might not be a bad idea. They might consider some of their actions "interesting", but the underlying motivation is competition.

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