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Find a Business Coach With The Right Coaching Platform

CoCaptain

We know the coaching industry is notorious for its price tags; this elite mentality aims at overpricing services to appear “valuable.” Hazards of Social Proofing: With the advent of the internet and social media, we rely on social proofing for almost everything we buy.

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Assess yourself: Should you launch a startup?

Penelope Trunk

Melissa decided to tag along on the trip to the bank. I search my phone for this link about entrepreneurship. He has social skills.”. Entrepreneurship' But it was too late for that. Ability to recognize a good hire and a bad hire. We get to the bank and I can’t open an account because I don’t have a New York address.

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Asperger's at work: 5 ways to be less annoying | Penelope Trunk's.

Penelope Trunk

Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The first step to growing a good career in the face of Asperger's Syndrome is to recognize that this is a social skills deficit, by definition, and work, by definition, is a social skills decathlon. Instead, ask your boss questions about social situations. And he said yes.

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Twitter can save your life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

It’s why so many people use social media – to help others. Social media is about networking, and networking is about helping people. Sometimes I can’t even understand what’s going on in my own social network, Brazen Careerist. I've never been terribly comfortable in social situations, but Twitter has made it easier.

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Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car.

Penelope Trunk

I review the social norms I know about vacations: usually, if someone is your friend, you can call them for help on vacation. The food thing is so much more socially acceptable. They miss social cues. They have to be taught to maintain eye contact and have trouble dealing with basic social protocol like courtesy.

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The Internet has created a generation of great writers | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

People do good writing every day, in social media—when they write a note on someone’s Facebook wall, when they post a caption to a photo on flickr , or when they post a comment in a group on Brazen Careerist. If she made the simpler claim that the modern social Internet has forced its users to write more, that would be self-evident.

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4 Twitter tips no one will give you | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

But, anyway, if you want to be the center of influential social networks, you need to appear happy, according to research from Nicholas Christakis , professor of sociology at Harvard University. Twitter is just a sliver of Social Media that I use to promote my blog and coupon business. Maybe I am the exception to this rule.

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