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How to Increase your Visibility at Work

Career Advancement

Ascher, who worked in a medical technology firm, had been making an effort to enhance how others perceived him over the past six months. You’ll never get ahead at work by lurking in the shadows. Justine Musk. He felt certain his coworkers saw him in a positive light. I sat down with Ascher and quickly got to the root of the problem.

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How to Increase your Visibility at Work

Career Advancement

Ascher, who worked in a medical technology firm, had been making an effort to enhance how others perceived him over the past six months. You’ll never get ahead at work by lurking in the shadows. Justine Musk. He felt certain his coworkers saw him in a positive light. I sat down with Ascher and quickly got to the root of the problem.

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An alternative path to self-acceptance

Penelope Trunk

Doctors want to go off on their own, but the skills that made them ripe for medical school make them terrible for entrepreneurship. Nurse practitioners, on the other hand, are corner cutters—after all, they didn’t go to medical school—and they are great entrepreneurs. Because most medical care is not in a hospital.

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How to write about your life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

You do it behind a curtain with shadows, giving hints of it, but not giving too much detail. But maybe that's because I'm being medicated for depression right now. When you talk about your family, coworkers, friends. That is the sex life – the personal things that make up your life. I like the honesty of your writing.

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

Penelope Trunk

Now the nation with the most powerful military in world history seems to be afraid of its own shadow and any dissent or disagreement. That money was given to the little boy's family for his medical expenses. I am deeply sad that a good neighbour has become fearful of the very things that makes itslef strong.

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