Month: July 2016

July 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

Read for the Stories, Not for the Hype

There are so many great stories to be told and heard, but they don’t come in the flashiest of covers, the largest of fanfare or the cutest marketing campaign. You can’t get them on your phone. The corners are dog-eared and scratched. They resonate with a few but not the paying masses. And they are some of the greatest stories that you will ever read, tucked behind the boxes that showcase the new, some of the greatest adventures you will ever read. Don’t read it for the hype, read it for the story, the hype isn’t going anywhere, but who

July 21, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Aftermath of Breaking the Mold

Take a bowl, the mold if you will and drop it on the floor. Congratulations you just broke the mold. Now, start picking up all the pieces that no longer fit together because of cracks here and there and pieces that are so small they cannot be added back into creating the mold. Now, take all those pieces and create the new mold from what you have gathered. It’s not perfect is it?   It has jagged little edges that will need to be smoothed out, it has bumps and crevices where the good ideas used to roll down.  You

July 18, 2016

Greg Thomas

Careers are not a Given

It’s not your employer’s responsibility to shape your career, you can move from role to role and job to job and establish yourself as someone that can accomplish things, get the job down and make it happen. They can provide you with training. They can provide you with opportunities. They can provide you with suggested. But at the end of the day, they cannot shape the course and direction of your career – only you can do that. Building a career, defining a career, it’s not a given, it’s a job and it takes work, sometimes extra, to make it

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