Month: September 2016

September 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Stop, Collaborate and Listen

There are products that had a stronger leg up to become a SLACK competitor or the SLACK. The had the foundation, the infrastructure, and the people to make it happen. But if you look at many of these applications, they were either; High-Investment – trying it out wasn’t an easy sell, you needed to invest time and money to make it happens. Closed Loops – Download software, have a big crazy profile of useless information and make it complicated to interact with different groups of people. Integration – want to show your work from Google Docs?  What about Office365?  Maybe

September 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Big Computer Rebuild

Two years ago when I went to rebuild my computer I would do the following; Backup all my personal files to a drive. Gather all my installs that I had download and put them on a drive. Get all bookmarks and favourites together so I wouldn’t lose them. Grab my mail files Format PC. Fiddled around with my drivers. Restore all that I backed up. Here is what I did a few weeks ago when I had to do this; Format PC. Downloaded Dropbox and synchronized my files. Logged into Chrome and retrieved all my bookmarks. Fiddled around with my

September 20, 2016

Greg Thomas

Quick Wins and Long Runs

Quick Win – you make decisions today based on what you want to achieve today based on the mistakes you made yesterday.  Your focus is narrow and you’re looking at the impact as it affects you today.  Quick Wins involve sacrifices and shortcuts on their path to success. Long Run – you make decisions today, for tomorrow and the tomorrow after that, but your focus is significantly expanded to include the impact from today as you look forward.  The Long run eschews shortcuts and “we’ll fix it later” in favour of thought out plans. One solves today’s problem, the other

September 19, 2016

Greg Thomas

Give your Project a Kick Start

Have you ever encountered that point in your project where it is simply dragging… maybe for a good reason, maybe for bad… but it’s dragging… on… and on… and on… And it’s at the point where people are starting to go through the motions of working on it instead of being really invested in it. If this sounds like a project you’re on, then your project needs a Kickstart to breathe life back into it… Shake up your status meetings – does everyone need to be there?  No, boot the rest out and let them work on the project. Has