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February 17, 2020 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

Career advice from this public enemy will be some of the best you ever hear

You ever heard of Flavor Flav?

If so, I’d bet you probably know him from a painfully bad reality show — Flavor of Love (so painful I watched every season).

But what you might not know is that Mr. Flav is also an inductee into the Rock N Roll hall of fame as part of the iconic group Public Enemy.

I’ll get to why you should care about this in a minute but first I want to share a story about a phone call I had today.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: productivity, professional networking

August 14, 2019 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

How to automagically add an hour or more to your day

When people find out, I have a blog one of the first questions I get is when do you have time for that?

I used to say usually when I’m supposed to be sleeping, but after I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, I finally got the message that sleep deprivation can cause major issues.

Nowadays, the answer is different and almost seems like it should be obvious but it’s not.

So here it is. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: productivity

April 17, 2019 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

You might get a kick out these tax day shenanigans

You might get a kick out of this.

I just came across a post from 10pm est on April 15 (aka tax due date) of someone saying “for some reason H&R block is experiencing heavy call volume”, and then proceeding to ask a question about how to answer one of the tax prompts on work location. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: productivity, tax

March 19, 2019 by Eric Butts Leave a Comment

You really need to focus right now

Let’s talk about focus.

It’s easy to get distracted by what’s happening around you. Maybe people are getting preferential treatment.

Aside from you only being able to control so much, you worrying about what somebody else is doing can have a real negative impact on your performance.

When we were in taekwondo this (the same session I wrote about a couple of days ago), something else interesting happened. [Read more…]

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

January 29, 2017 by Eric Butts 3 Comments

I got called out by a kindergartener for underperforming (and he was totally right)

my kindergartener called me out

I’ve had quite a few occasions to talk about times where I’ve had to do some major self-reflection on my career choice to go into consulting. There was that one time that my son imitated me by grabbing my carry-on suitcase and bee-lining for the front door (here’s the proof). Sidenote: isn’t great how you can always trust your kids to hold up a distortion-free mirror with a reflection of ALL of your behaviors.

And there was this other time when my daughter told me she was so glad I came over…when all I did was come home…from yet another work trip. It was almost enough to make me quit management consulting.

I got called out again the week before last. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career management, family, productivity

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