Month: September 2018

September 28, 2018

Greg Thomas

Just Like Everyone Else

Stay on the same course as everyone else. Don’t colour outside of the lines. Stay in your box, maybe make it smaller to be on the safe side. Don’t try anything new, do what everyone else is doing. After all, 1 million, billion cannot be wrong, can they? Stay the course that is safe and well worn by those in front of you (no need to create a shortcut to get their faster). Never try something new, too much risk. Be Just Like Everyone Else, and eventually, you will get where everyone else is and or headed. And if that

September 27, 2018

Greg Thomas

Volunteer for Something

Whatever fits into your wheelhouse but volunteer. Whether you’re a marketer giving your time to a small ad agency. Or a coder giving your time to a non-profit. Or an engineer coaching a youth basketball team. Or a (INSERT PROFESSION HERE) doing (SOMETHING GREAT HERE). You might go in thinking you’re going to get nothing out of it – but you will, it simply depends on what you are willing to put into it that will be the differentiator.

September 26, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Weakest Link

So you’re the weakest member on the team. Whether it’s skill, knowledge, experience, whatever. You’re the one that has the most potential to hold back to the team on their next ship. So… What. You’re also the person with the most potential to under promise and over deliver. You’re the person with nothing to lose so why not try a different approach. You’re the person who can learn the most from everyone around you and never complain about being bored. You’re the person who can do all these things if you’re willing to take the Initiative, Lead the Army of

September 25, 2018

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Need to Change the World

Or make a dent it in as Steven Jobs so famously said. Or implement a change that affects millions and billions overnight. What you DO need to focus on is what you need to do to change your world and make an impact on the people around you. Focus on that delivery, focus on that change. Once that change happens, the rest will fall into place as blocks always do.

September 24, 2018

Greg Thomas

Stop the Presses!

If you’re not sure where this phrase originated from here is a brief synopsis. And if you didn’t read the above link you know the phrase from any movie that featured a newspaper where information so cataclysmic that it required a full-stop on what was being done.  Everyone… EVERYONE… stopped what they were doing and looked up to see who had yelled it out and what new information justified it. But here we are, in a 24 hours news cycle where the presses never stop for anyone – we never stop or fix what we are doing because there is

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