February 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Team-Ups

When was the last time you worked with someone on your team that you’ve been dying to work with for a while on a special project? It doesn’t even have to be a special project, just some project. There are people that I have worked with where I never got this opportunity, I kept pushing it off, thinking it would happen way later in our careers but something came up -I left, they left, moved to separate teams, pick your reason. Don’t wait for the next great team-up to happen, go make it happen.  

February 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Least Connections

We don’t count the least connections. We should because the ones with the least connections are the ones that have the most value. Because we have time to cultivate and grow each one. The more you, the harder it becomes to maintain that same level of touch and value when we had the least of them.

Not Another Subscription

Everything is a subscription, we don’t buy it outright, we get dinged every day, week, month, and year based on our usage.  And if we don’t use it enough there are base fees to “keep the lights on”. Not everything needs a subscription, not everything needs an account, a login, or a profile that does everything except cancel it. I don’t pay a subscription fee for my shoes and they are doing just fine. If you are charging a subscription fee, make sure you are making that fee worthwhile, otherwise, sell me on creating another profile.

February 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do You Own It or Run It

When you own something you treat it very differently than if you were simply running it. Owning it means you are responsible for it, you have a vested interest in it, you want to see it succeed and become something greater. Running it is making it gets from point A to B as quickly as possible. We make Owning it sound like a bad thing because then we are responsible and accountable for the outcome and that is a “a lot”. It’s not, but it is what we need to grow.  

February 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Going from Zero to One Hundred

Whether you are restarting with an old team or starting with a new team – the last week of “things opening up” was probably stressful for you and your team. Not only that, how many times have we been through this before?  (I don’t want to count, but I know the number is lurking in the back of my head). You have a ton of things to catch up on, you have to motivate your team to get back into the swing of things on top of everything else they are struggling with. Know, that even though you need to