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Asperger's at work: Why I'm difficult in meetings | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger's at work: Why I'm difficult in meetings Posted to: Diversity | Knowing yourself October 29th, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Eighty percent of adults with Asperger Syndrome do not have full-time work.

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

Penelope Trunk

The first is that you need to work every single day at being great at that one thing if you want to be great. Today the standard for being an international success at anything is so high that the authors say you need to spend at least ten years working in a very focused, everyday way on the thing you want to be great at.

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You should lead from the middle | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

This is why Gen X is notoriously hands-off in the leadership space; Gen X doesn’t actually care who is in charge as long as the work gets done. Leadership according to Gen Y : everyone is working together, in a non-competitive way. But what we have is actually a semantic problem rather than a leadership problem.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking. Hello, McDonald's) Posted to: Diversity | Leadership January 18th, 2010 Del.icio.us I asked the farmer if rodeos are bad for the animals. He said, “City people probably think so.

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