Eric P. Butts

Sunday thought…

I was on here the other day and saw this quote that said, "Everybody wants to shine but no one wants to be polished." This sounds like something that may have been around for a while but I'd not heard it before and I kinda love it.

Here's why... it's a solid reminder that it's easy to want things -- get promoted to manager, get admitted to a partnership, make black belt in Tae Kwon Do -- but all too often people turn their nose up at the steps it takes to make it happen.

Maybe it shouldn't be so hard... but it is. And like I always say, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches professionally making moves based on how things are instead of how you wish they were (until you're in a position to change them).

I don’t know if I’m just paying attention more now or if it’s always been this way but there’s one question I seem to be getting all the time now…

Any guesses what it is?

The one question that people from all aspects of my life are asking right now This is hands down the question I see the most often. The question is telling but the answer is even more important.

WOW… CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/business/better-ceo-fires-employees/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_content=2021-12-06T00%3A30%3A04&utm_term=link&fbclid=IwAR31lEFMVJA4bvTYxYTaHP80VQ-Dt3q-fYHUQSSQctxp3_8cBaKRZjX_5hs

Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.