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October 11, 2015 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

The Truth About Why Your Passion Won’t Equal Success

 

Passion vs Success

Smart people give terrible advice too.

Most people won’t want to admit it until they’re on the receiving end of the bad advice. Maybe because they don’t want to tarnish the image of the mentors in their lives. Or maybe because they don’t want to face the fact they’ve missed the mark on some advice they’ve given. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management, career mistakes, passion

March 25, 2015 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

How Do you Find The Right Mentor?

After reading the post about the 12 reasons you NEED to have a mentor, a reader asked a great question in the comments about how to find the right mentor.

Now that we know we need a mentor. How do we go about getting one and choosing the right one?

As you can probably guess, it’s all about the relationships. But I’m also going to tell you how to target the relationships you want to cultivate. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management, mentor, mentorship, professional networking

February 26, 2015 by Eric Butts 2 Comments

Have A Career Mentor? 12 Humbling Reasons You Need One

“I get by with a little help from my friends” is more than a catchy lyric-turned-tv-theme-song for one of the most memorable shows of the early 90s. It’s how you need to think about managing your career.

People love the idea of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and squeezing into this narrow image of success, no matter how distorted from reality. The truth is everyone benefits from having a support network, especially when navigating his or her career.

You know the best way to get career help? Finding the right mentor. And in case you thought this is optional, here are the twelve most humble reasons you NEED to have a career mentor: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management, mentor, mentorship

August 25, 2013 by Eric Butts 2 Comments

3 Words That Will Kill Your Career

3 words that will kill your career
In today’s working world, people are asked to do a lot, to fulfill roles which may not come naturally to them. Part of this stems from companies becoming “leaner” with their staff. Everyone has their primary role but then everyone also has to pitch in a little in other areas to make sure businesses continue to run smoothly. I remember in business school studying Southwest Airlines and how they have such high on-time rates. It came down to two things.First, they stayed away from the worst airports, so no O’hare and no JFK, to name a couple.

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Filed Under: Career Advice, Corporate Ladder University Tagged With: career, career management, career mistakes, job boundaries

June 14, 2013 by Eric Butts 101 Comments

Why Are There Still So Few Black CPAs?

Diversity in Acounting

First, if you clicked the link for this post and don’t happen to be black, thank you. Now, stick around because this post is looking for your help just as much as anyone else’s.

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Filed Under: Accounting, CPA Tagged With: career advice, career management, diversity

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