Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

Ryan Paugh , who was basically my intern when I met him , and now he's almost my boss and definitely my social-skills mentor , tells me that I am popular because I'm interesting but that I suck at self-promotion. (He Good communication is the key to the start of good and effective self-promotion. Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

Reasons: 1) They simply could not have communicated as easily (e-mail, twitter, etc.) He was saying that, for example, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson would NEVER choose to be on a team together, like LeBron has chosen to play with Dwayne Wade. It really isn't such a simple choice.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I'm male, 23 and have yet to work at all, so any and all advice about the subject, especially from someone who has accomplished a great deal while still harboring some of the same anxiety, is more than welcome. Penelope, you are a good communicator. So I'd say the mission was accomplished!

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

If someone does something just to say they did it (like running a marathon or climbing the Great Wall of China), but didn't enjoy the actual experience of having done it or the accomplishment itself, it was probably a waste of time. Built my own home in 2008 and have never painted or used wall paper on my walls. Posted by Mark W.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I certainly am a fan of working from home and believe that you have a set boundaries and expectations so that you are productive and focused on getting things accomplished to be successful. I check emails, figure out what I need to accomplish for the day, but not much more. So I don't work much in the morning. every day.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

For Generation Z, email is for diatribes and texting is for communication. Penelope, your true and accomplished voice at this time is writing. Like, I’m thinking that the future of all writing is short, twitter-like stuff, based on traits we see in Generation Z. This group only uses phones , and very few use phones for email.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

You might be sick of hearing about my company here, but, you might also be happy to know that I’ve accomplished that goal, too. 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. Regain my sanity.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Winning is usually accomplished by placing the ball where your opponent isn't located: either you put the ball there yourself or you pass your team-mate so they can put the ball there. I can't think of anything to say or communicate ideas well when I have to think on the spot. I'm socially incompetent.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

I think you need to write a post about things you've done right, things you want, and how you are going to move on and accomplish them. Like you, I suck at the friendship thing, and that's mostly because I suck at talking, especially on the phone–which is how most non internet people seem to communicate.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

That is the only way we get to our goals, the only way the tortoise beats the hare in the race, the only way that we can look back and be so proud of our accomplishments. You've accomplished a lot. Not only was it not OTT, it was mature, kind & mentor-y. Perseverance. Perseverance. Is the lost feeling work related?

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Looking back I realize it was the one thing in my life that I could control, accomplish something, make progress, etc. Who knew that farmers have a telepathic line of communication. I think it's just part of settling in and learning to communicate our needs, even though it was rough to go through at the time.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

none of us is hardwired to know how to broker the communications styles that merge in marriage. Somehow I need to be reminded of this, and not enough people — especially people of admirable accomplishments and public profiles — openly discuss this stuff, and so I find solace in your blog.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 18, 2009

Information is changing, the flow of ideas is changing , and written communication is changing with it. Young people do not feel information overload , which is another sign that they are excellent writers for the new millennium: They can process and communicate new ideas at the new pace. Right this second. But they will.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

You're accomplishing herculean tasks few women ever think of attempting. I recently read a post on the Remarkable Communication blog about how not to be a bad boyfriend, the premise being that this model from life can be used in so many more contexts than relationships with significant others. COULD you be one of these women?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

But at the other end of the spectrum (where I am) if you just want to write well, you also need influence because if you are writing and no one is listening then you are not really communicating. First, I don't even see how you accomplish what you set out to do. I spent two hours trying to find this article in the New York Times.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

It's only when they stop and try to reformulate their natural communication into an MBA-approved "assertive" statement that they seem to stumble and lose confidence. When I think about the women managers and peers I've worked for and with, almost none of them get things done the way they're "supposed" to.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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. 2008 Self-sabotage is never limited to just one part of your life Nov. They told us how smart we were and how we'd accomplish so much.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

It is elitist and a rip off and the Internet has democratized access to information and communication skills to the point that paying $30K a year to get them is insane. So they needed school to teach them communication skills and critical thinking skills. Thanks, community college. I work in health communications.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Or just continue to pity them all, no matter how much they accomplish in life? We're not abnormal, we had a vision and we set out to accomplish it. It's actually healthy, you visualize it and with that maybe move a step closer to accomplishing it. Would you prefer that we dismiss all the high achievers as freaks?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Re: the point about being "fuckable" — I think that "sexually desireable" communicates the intent quite well. I suppose I am becoming a more articulate and creative communicator, since I don't rely on fuck as a shortcut now. Does it clarify communication? And I really miss saying fuck.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2010

I always have so many things to get done and feel like I'm never balanced if I don't accomplish it all. Good communication, listening and compassion go along way to heading off harassment in the first place. It says it all. This week is no exception. I flew up to New York Thursday and he passed away Friday.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The vast majority of electronic communication today is via social media, according to Paul Greenberg , a relationship management consultant. But then I thought about the viral nature of communication via social networks, and the statistic started to make sense. At first I didn’t believe it.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 25, 2010

There is nothing in your career or personal life that is so important that it has to be accomplished by a text in the middle of traffic. I like you and your blog. But your ego is making a choice for you that is wrong. If you think otherwise, you are wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Obama said…"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership," I think "representing" something is worthy of recognition, there is no "representing" without doing. " 1 – please list President Obama's accomplishments.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

The reason we did that is because according to Cone , 50% of generation Y communicate with companies through social media. Communications McDonald's USA Subscribe -- free! with remarks to “just ignore it” but what this accomplishes really is to keep the facts covered over and simmering on the back burner.

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