On The Job

OCTOBER 5, 2010

What does your handwriting say to your boss? You might be surprised to learn just how much. A story in today's Wall Street Journal discusses how forming letters is key to developing the brain. It quotes an education professor noting that messy handwriting can have "ramifications." For example, good handwriting "can take a generic classroom test score from the 50th percentile to the 84th percentile, while bad penmanship could tank it to the 16th," the story notes.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Career fulfillment (or, as I like to call it, career nourishment ) can often seem like an elusive beast. Figuring out what it is and how to find it is a difficult process for many. The first thing I tell my coaching clients is that career fulfillment isn’t something you FIND, it’s something you CREATE. And the process, while different for everyone, involves five essential steps: 1.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Image by Hugh MacLeod Drink and drugs. A writer’s key to inspiration? Or a demon to your creative success? One of the hottest debates surrounding inspiration is that of the effect of drink and drugs. Some firmly believe they are essential for great creations. Even German philosopher Nietzsche stated that: For art to exist, for […]. The post Don’t Let ‘Inspiration’ Kill Your Creativity appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog The science of love at first sight Posted to: Interviewing | Networking October 4th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook This is what the farm looks like when you drive up to it. For a while, I thought that the farm is really what I fell in love with.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The job-hunting experience can be a stressful one: sending out resumes, interviewing, sending out more resumes and interviewing again. It can take weeks, even months, to nail the job you want. Finally, you get the position you desire. And while you’re a bit nervous in the beginning, the new job begins to feel more comfortable after a while, and you settle in to the routine.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 21, 2010

When I write for Gannett/USAToday.com, my column is picked up by newspapers and different websites all over the world. I find it interesting to see the comments people write about my stories that appear online -- and these from the Arizona Republic site may reflect the initial feeling of many workers when told they need to "manage the boss." For example, "years30on" responded at the end of my story: " There's a term for this 'Learn to manage your boss' - FIRED.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I think when this whole economic meltdown started more than a year ago, I -- like many people -- didn't know how bad it was going to get. Since then, I've seen really good people lose their jobs. I've interviewed dozens of people who have been looking and looking for work. Some have gotten jobs, only to lose them months later. I talk to parents who have tapped into their children's college funds just to make the mortgage.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 25, 2010

On the job, your work space is tidy and well maintained, with all your projects lined up like neat little soldiers. You can put your hands on just what you need at a moment’s notice, and never fail to throw away useless items. But while co-workers see you as the poster child of organization, you hide a dirty little secret: Your home office looks like a typhoon just hit.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Like most people, I've attended some great PowerPoint presentations, and some truly horrible ones. One of the worst ones I ever attended was by a very well-regarded researcher -- but I found myself redesigning my kitchen in my head I was so bored. And while I never did get my new kitchen, I did learn what makes a bad PowerPoint presentation. But what makes a great one?

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On The Job

OCTOBER 4, 2010

A few years ago, it became a very big deal in my neighborhood when some of my neighbors discovered that the rules under our homeowner's association contract stated that no political signs could be placed in a front yard. That led to some standoffs as neighbors proudly staked their political signs, claiming free speech and daring anyone to say something to them.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I spend a lot of time sharing information on how to love your career. I talk about making thoughtful decisions , establishing a path and actively managing your goals. But, equally important, is avoiding those roads that will lead to inevitable career unhappiness. Sometimes, they’re hard to spot. But I’ve found five that are clear, unmistakable danger zones.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m a compulsive over-analyzer. Rarely am I able to just “let things go” when I should. Instead, I dwell. I pick apart. I dissect until whatever it is no longer resembles itself. I think way too much. The human brain has a remarkable ability to find order in chaos. I blame my need to over-analyze on this biological fact. I think, ultimately, I’m searching for some sort of reason in an unreasonable world.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A good friend of mine once told me that every soul is for sale. He said it’s just the way the world works, that we do what we can to stay whole but sooner or later, we let pieces of ourselves go in exchange for what we need. It’s a matter of survival, he said. His is a cynical view of the world but, after years of reflection, I think he’s right. To get ahead, we all have to make sacrifices.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I consider myself very fortunate: My career gives me a deep sense of purpose. Luck is definitely part of it, but it also took a lot of work to get to this point. Like everyone, I’ve had jobs that left me feeling empty at the end of the day. But this— coaching and training others about career development —isn’t one of those jobs. In fact, I see it as more than just a job or even a career: It’s a mission.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Image by losmininos In 2005 I began puzzling over the success of some elite professionals I was fortunate enough to meet. They did not match any of my categories and yet they were more successful than anybody else in their field. I solved the riddle two years later after reading Harriet Rubin’s book, Soloing. Rubin […]. The post The Four Stages of Freelance Success appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. These are the words that swam into my mind when I learned about the theme of this year’s Blog Action Day: Water. They come from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s great poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, at the point where the Mariner and his shipmates have lost […]. The post Everybody’s Drink Problem appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Mind maps are a powerful tool to get yourself unstuck, focused and organized to do your best creative work. Tony Buzan is the person best known for coining the term mind map and helping to educate the world at large about the concept. Mind maps are a form of visual mapping, where you use a […]. The post Four Ways Mind Maps Make You More Creative appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As you read these words, your brain is being changed. Every day, as you surf the internet, clicking on hyperlinks, opening new tabs and windows, flicking between e-mail, Twitter, Facebook and whatever it was you were reading just now, your patterns of thought are changing. And neuroscientists have amassed solid evidence that when we change […].

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Lateral Action

OCTOBER 20, 2010

“If you only read one book about getting creative work done,” I tell my coaching clients, “make it The War of Art“ Regular Lateral Action readers will know I’m a huge fan of Steven Pressfield’s approach to overcoming Resistance and getting on with your biggest creative challenges, as described in the text and audio interviews […].

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, I hosted a free teleseminar with my good friend Sydni Craig-Hart (of Executive Assistant to Virtual Assistant ) and she was kind enough to record it. For your listening pleasure, I’ve loaded it in here. Please take some time out of your busy day to sit back, relax and learn all about how to manage stress and emotions in the workplace.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you watched "Undercover Boss" last night, you saw a truly awful hair piece being sported by Frontier Airlines CEO Bryan Bedford. I think the guy should get props just for wearing something that looked like road kill and probably smelled about the same after working the tarmac in Oklahoma City in 104-degree weather and being doused with what appeared to be human pee when he was on latrine duty.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Start recognizing patterns in problems Posted to: Knowing yourself October 15th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I think each person struggles with one, singular thing. I learned this when I was a graduate student in English.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Brazen Careerist opens an office in DC Posted to: Entrepreneurship October 6th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Brazen Careerist is opening offices in Washington, DC. Our CEO lives in DC, so Ryan Healy is moving there – along with Photis , the developer (who I convinced to move from Philadelpia to Madison by telling him that his life would suck and

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog BNET Column: Why hunting for a great job hurts your career Posted to: Job Hunt October 3rd, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook One of the hardest things about being unemployed is worrying that you will not end up in a good job.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Is this your first time here? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Snapshot of the new workplace: Karen Owen's PowerPoint Posted to: Women October 9th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook For those of you who missed it, Karen Owen, a student at Duke University, sent a summary of her sex life to some friends, via email.

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