Penelope Trunk

MARCH 11, 2010

I am the Mayor of the HIdden Job Market on FourSquare for heaven's sake, which makes me a)almost cool and b) possibly knowledgable ( Networking is my life). There are a number of tummy tuck photo galleries that have descriptive pictures that you can see to learn how abdominoplasty is performed. I'd love to help you.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Research has also shown that taking it down from the abstract level (the outcome) and down to the concrete (the story of how to get there) can also increase the success rate at performing new tasks.

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Crestcom

AUGUST 12, 2022

And I think Catalyst did an article on this in 2007. So we’re already exceptional performers. Our signature BPM program provides interactive management training with a results-oriented curriculum and prime networking opportunities. One of them is that believe it or not.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Twitter can save your life Posted to: Networking February 10th, 2010 Del.icio.us Twitter answers questions so efficiently because there is such an incredibly wide range of top-performers. Is this your first time here?

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I've been walking around with the July/August 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review constantly, for close to three years. For one thing, the article explains that “there is no correlation between IQ and expert performance in fields such as chess, music, sports, and medicine.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

I was really struck by the book, Abolishing the Performance Review , by S amuel Culbert , professor at the UCLA school of business. What you pointed out is crucial, not just to better performance but to keeping relationships strong. You can’t shortcut it by adding quality to the front. Needless to say the 35 year friendship has ended.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Your career is only as strong as your network! But the company had been making paycuts and personnel cuts all over the place, and I never clicked with my boss, so I have my doubts about the real reason, especially considering that others were also tardy a lot, and I performed well otherwise, receiving a raise each year. Let’s do lunch!

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 6, 2010

It’s the best way to have a meaningful conversation and it’s the best way to rope in a mentor or look like a star performer. I have been writing about asking questions for a long time. People spend more time thinking about answers than questions, but it’s the questions that make you look smart. Good questions require creative thinking.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In other words, perform the damage control before it gets 'out of control' Things will be easier to fix this way. Posted by Jessica on September 24, 2010 at 6:01 pm | permalink | Reply Both #1 (Get help) and #2. (Be Be honest) are good tactics to fix things.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

" and you said, "I now understand that without quality leadership the environment in which those front line people perform will often become poisoned, sometimes dramatically impairing the quality of their work." I think many people don't even realize they are leaders until after they are already performing in those roles.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

One day at a dance performance in Tokyo 3 Japanese women spotted me in the most Japanese crowd and came over to thank me for attending. I've been meeting cool Twitter friends as they come through San Francisco too – hey, you're always telling us we should network more! I don't regret it.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It really is time that these bureaucratic hell holes actually started to realize they are performing a public service. Posted by Mike CJ on December 1, 2009 at 12:20 pm | permalink | Reply "It really is time that these bureaucratic hell holes actually started to realize they are performing a public service.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

I perform just like the child in the fairy tale concerning how we are lead by psychopathic elite leaders that despise the rest of us for our very existence. Paradoxically, from my point of view, I perform well in a conflict resolution role with partners at work. I have views that compel me to say that the Emperor wears no clothes.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am an authority, I have been self unemployed, but mostly employed, since 1991: Here is the big tip – get ready – Put your damned shoes on when you work at home, you take perform a demanding professional job like writing technical shit or code in your socks or bare feet. Get dressed. or something else connected to work.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

It seems that while happy people would make better employees, interesting people may actually end up performing better in interviews. Posted by Jessie on January 7, 2010 at 2:32 pm | permalink | Reply I wonder how the happy v. interesting dynamic relates to careers, specifically interviews. Also, I love the New York City data.

IT 101

IT Career Food Management 101

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The most important thing that I learned from the course was that a good manager is the biggest factor of the team's performance. Posted by Mark W. on October 10, 2009 at 8:16 am | permalink | Reply I just recently got promoted from being a techie to a team leader, and since I'm totally clueless they sent me on a course.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Posted by Amy on September 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm | permalink | Reply It's really interesting to me, 'Lope, that you're such a good networker. Much of the time, when I network I fall into "hypnotic pacing", where I'm copying the other person's demeanor back at them. Check it out at: [link].

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Food IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Have you ever stopped to think about how much of your day is taken up dealing with other people's inadequacies or the lack of other people to successfully perform their job?!? But, after 11 years of study, he has professional skills, composes, performs and makes a living with his instrument. Am I happy to see him so happy?

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

Good managers will do their own recruiting by having their own great network. The last part of this post reads like every annual performance self-evaluation I've seen where the person knows they aren't contributing and should be fired. Here’s another idea: The future of human resources is death. Yes – HR, doomed.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2010

"Psychological strategies that people can use to improve mental performance" is the heading of the article and it briefly discusses focus and productivity. It appears to me to be a very good book. Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 3, 2010

And top performers don’t use sarcasm because it’s mean. This can inevitably grow your network/career. It saves me time, and I always get a quality performance. A lot of top performing comedians use sarcasm, especially the African American ones. The timing is off. So comedians rarely use sarcasm because it’s not funny.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Posted by principalspage on November 17, 2009 at 10:16 am | permalink | Reply The message I got from this is that though the activities you perform may not change, the motivation behind them maychange. As long as you can continue to perform the activities you love to do then that is most of the battle.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Sydney Blatt, psychologist at Yale University, finds that perfectionists are more likely to kill themselves than regular, mediocre-performing people. Maybe it's being INTJ, but I always assume that heroic performance and excellent work will trump everything…I see now that I've been going about things the wrong way.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I'm sure you aren't selling such a caveman notion, but your comment reads like you believe sex is a duty women perform without any enjoyment for themselves. Besides the number of years they play, equipment is also an issue – I bought the best helmet money could buy when I started playing in 2007. That is just an excuse.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

We look at others and their "happy buttons" and wonder how to make our "happy buttons" perform the same function. So, we spend our lives observing others, doing what they do, pretending to fit in, however, we never quite get it exactly right. So, I think this leads us into a land of confusion. Not always so for others.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I would like to perform better at my job or look into a new career perhaps. " For example, they performed the complex math needed to ensure that the pump you bought was the right one to make the flush toilets work at the top of a skyscraper. The reporters also are drawn to certain personalities and get irked by pushiness.

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Recruitment IT Career Consulting 110

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I hope that the rule of past performance predicting future performance will skew more toward his former exits than mine. The strategy changes, the tactics change. He says it has happened at every startup he’s ever had. I console myself that he’s had two, huge exits. I try to focus.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Incredibly successful people, in addition to having more successes, also have WAY more failures than people performing at the "normal" level. Steven Spielberg is the one I hear cited as an example most frequently. In order to end up with more successful results, you have to try (and therefore fail) more.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The school is Nathan Bedford Forrest High School (yes) [link] F Rating as of 2007-2008 on the Florida School Accountability Grading Scale. These kids need to turn off the Social Networks and read a book because school won't help them. This isn't the norm, but it does happen. If the methodology was flawed? bored, text me”).

Communication 112

Communication Media IT Entertainment 112

Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog We're nearing the end of email, maybe Posted to: Networking | Self-management April 23rd, 2010 Del.icio.us But then I thought about the viral nature of communication via social networks, and the statistic started to make sense.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 22, 2009

2008 Think of networking as a lifestyle, not an event July 2009 The sign of a great career is having great opportunities, and saying no Sept. The Story of the Farmer – From the First Day We Met: June 2008 New Way to Measure Blog ROI June 2008 How I started taming my workaholic tendencies Oct.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

My company, Brazen Careerist , just launched a company section in our social network. And Jeremy Owyang, from Forrester Research reports that, "In approximately two years social networks will be more powerful than corporate web sites. Nor will I play it when my community band performs it.) What an embarrassment!

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