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Just when I thought I found my generational label and was officially a First Global, I got all confused again reading the August 25th issue of BusinessWeek with all of the Gen X and Gen Y talk and no accurate labels as to what they MEAN.

Earlier this year, Penelope Trunk invited me to write a blog post for Brazen Careerist. My article recently appeared on her site, and I thought I would share the post with my readers who might be interested in sharing feedback!  There is a  lot of pressure to be exceptional.  Entrepreneur and

Where else can you find an open bar, free goodies, good food and company?  At the Brazen Careerist DC Blogger meetup!  I was invited along with the other DC BC Bloggers for our first meetup where we shared good company and some good ole blogger networking.  This wasn’t my first time to a blogger event but this was probably the best one to date.

If you’re in the midst of a job hunt, you probably think a lot about all of the things that are out of your control. The fact is, you can’t control the job market, the employer or recruiter’s time schedule or behavior, the traffic on the way to the interview…The list goes on and on.

A co-worker that knows how much I like shoes and talking about them sent me this article by Penelope Trunk: Five things that are about to stop sucking at work.  I could not pass up sharing number 4… 4. The tyranny of high heels will give way to the pricey, good-for-feet-but-still-sexy, heel.

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Too Many GRC Systems? | The IT-Finance Connection In many ways, GRC today is at a stage similar to CRM 10 or 15 years ago. Then, each department maintained its own customer relations management tools, resulting in inefficiency and customer frustration, as well as duplication of effort and redundancy

Self confidence is one of the five keys to a successful career and life that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success. If you want to become self confident, you need to become optimistic, you need to face your fears and act, and you need to surround yourself with positive people.

Marci Alboher’s Shifting Careers New York Times blog post last week cited the same Penelope Trunk blog post mentioned here regarding transparency with regard to compensation. Marci wrote: A few months ago, I went to hear Gloria Steinem speak.