Month: August 2019

August 9, 2019

Greg Thomas

Be an Artist

Artists have it right. They’ve had it right for years. Learn a craft, yes struggle at it, but learn it, work through it, show up every day with the goal of making yourself better than you were the day before. Don’t give up because an Artist doesn’t give up, they show up and try again. It doesn’t matter how you get compensated – what matters is the art, the end product, the delivery, the creation. That’s what we need to focus on, in whatever it is that you do, that’s what matters, bring that mindset to the table whether you’re

August 7, 2019

Greg Thomas

We need the Bumps

Otherwise we never know what the look like. What it takes to get over them. What it feels like to pick ourselves up. We need them on the small ideas, the little experiments, the failures we celebrate internally, so when they happen to the team, the big adventures, the huge unknowns – we are ready for them. Hitting bumps isn’t bad, not knowing what to do when you do hit them is.

August 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

Leadership Erosion

If left unchanged, everything erodes. The clearest examples being rocks by the ocean, over time, the water will wash them away, tearing away little bits at a time until there is nothing left. The same thing can happen with your Leadership is you never change it, never protect the base, never take steps to make it better or stronger. Over time, it gets old, used, the same techniques don’t work as well as they used to. Worst yet, it comes across as laziness, apathetic, disinterested, disengaged, all of it and what is left? Nothing, it’s eroded. Keep your leadership game

August 5, 2019

Greg Thomas

Group Work

It doesn’t matter what setting you are in, when the Instructor, organizer, teacher, whatever, tells you to get into groups we all have the same responses… “Great, now my mark isn’t my own.” “I’m going to end up doing anything?” “I don’t have time for this.” Those are the negative responses to having to work with people we have either preconceived notions of or experiences from in the past. But if your first response to sitting down with your group, when they first start dividing up work is to say – “I’ll do it.” – well then you’ve set the

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