Month: March 2016

March 31, 2016

Greg Thomas

Exercise Your Brain

You know that feeling you get after you haven’t worked out for awhile and your whole body is aching because it’s all like – “hey this is above and beyond our normal routine of getting up, going to work, sitting down, going home, watching something and going to bed” – routine. And maybe that is something you are doing some other activities during the day too – but you know the day I’m talking about – where you wakeup and go for the run in the morning and feel it the rest of the day kind of day. Yeah –

March 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Detractor

The Detractor isn’t a bad person to have on your team, they aren’t malicious per se, but they are 100% – a Distraction – where their main goal is to detract you from your goal. The Detractor has their own goals in mind, they are working towards something else that is separate from what the rest of the team is focussed on.  Towards the end of each meeting, when everyone has said their piece and is clear on the next step for the project they come back with – “one last thing” – that doesn’t align with the path of

March 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

LinkedIn Connection Requests

I receive a few unsolicited connection requests a month from people I have never met. Maybe they have read something I wrote (that’s cool). Maybe they want to partner or work with me (that’s cool too). Maybe they want to sell me something (sure why not, that’s what it’s there for). Maybe I’m a small part of them trying to grow their network with like minded people (all sounds great). When I receive these requests where the profile is incomplete, no photo, no experience, no effort in trying to create something – I’ll always reject them flat-out.  The goal of

March 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

Oranges and Innovation

It’s not about how you grow a great orange.  In business schools, we really teach people how to squeeze oranges – how to manage for greater efficiency and economies of scale – not how to grow new and better oranges, which requires a different kind of thinking.  Business schools may offer a few selective courses in innovation, but they foster a mind-set that promotes way more obsession with how to make money than how to create a truly great, innovative product, and that obsession will suck the life out of the organizational pursuit of innovation. From the book – Creating

March 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

Own your Niche

Speciality or Everything – it’s always the same battle. Will being a generalist at everything be what propels my career or will focussing on my niche give me the expertise I need to be “that guy” that everyone comes to for answers. When you are a generalist, you need to get used to being spread thin, there is no ifs and/or buts about.  You know a bit about everything, people from all over the place will start coming to you for a variety of things – sales questions, product management ideas, design problems, code reviews, platform integration, etc, etc. When

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