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Parents as Leaders: A Frontline Festival

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Be sure to enter your email on the side bar to get our new free e-book “ A Parent’s Guide to Leadership.” I consider those people my heroes.” Mr. Fred Rogers. We help our children grow their confidence, competence and creativity every time we let them explore, try and stretch. Being a Role Model.

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

Penelope Trunk

Ben Casnocha has one of the most thorough, self-examined discussions about the value of college on his blog. He went to college, probably, because so many people told him to. Here are some good links on Ben's blog.) Ben left college. Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center.

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

Penelope Trunk

Many people assume this is because Gen Y doesn’t care about salary. Anyone can go to a place like Payscale and find out what other people in a similar geographic location are getting paid for a similar job. So for Gen Y, going to a company that pays fair wages is like going to a company that hires people who aren’t white.

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Time management is not about tasks | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

For example, we go out to our forest (a five-minute walk from our house) once or twice a week. Because people compliment you only on stuff they think you don’t know. And, look, here is research to show that people like research.) There is nothing to do, really, where we live. This makes sense to me.

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Underrated career skill: Asking questions | Penelope Trunk's.

Penelope Trunk

I know it’s really hard to teach because people with Asperger Syndrome don’t understand how to ask a question, and I watched speech therapists ( pragmatics specialists) try to teach my son, while I took notes for myself. Trust that people are interesting. Of course, this would not be a good topic for most people. He was right.

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