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Attention to problems matters more than solutions to problems

Penelope Trunk

Fortune magazine has started reporting about family in corporate life. Fortune magazine is a monument to how messed up corporate life really is. People who hire me for career coaching are invariably high performers. We all know corporate jobs are messed up.

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Being an expert takes time, not talent | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

When my last car broke down in the middle of an intersection, I got the magazine out of the trunk before I abandoned the car. 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. So what factor does correlate with success?

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