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10 Ways to Create a Great Company Culture

Vantage Circle

According to a study of about 34 million online employee profiles, “a toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition and ten times more important than compensation in predicting turnover.” High turnover rates. Do you want your employees to feel valued, motivated, and happy?

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Announcing: Brazen Careerist Top 50 Places to Work | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

We do assume any decent company pays fair wages, but we give a slight reward to companies that pay extra high wages to young workers. Social entrepreneurship is stupid. It’s stupid because you don’t’ need to be calling yourself a social entrepreneur in order to save the world. Salary negotiations are over.

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

Penelope Trunk

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. Evidence: high schools swimmers today would beat Olympic records from years ago. This is not a medical journal. In my life.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Career centers don’t understand social media. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. It only serves to limit you in the social media world. Tough is totally relative, though. How does this help you?

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We're nearing the end of email, maybe | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

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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