March 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

What do you Need?

We shy away from this question because it forces us to look at where we might be coming up short and more importantly – where we might be needing help. But it’s the question we should be asking ourselves each and every day in order to move forward. And the one question you should always be asking your team to ensure you’re supporting them in the best way how.

March 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

What do you Bring to the Table?

It’s a tough question to ask of yourself because it can only be answered by yourself. But once you ask it, you know what you do and don’t bring. And what you don’t bring becomes the plan for you to figure out how to get there.

March 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

Better Marker Boards

I don’t want pretty boxes. I don’t want the connection to file shares. I don’t want auto-syncing to different apps across every phone. I want a marker board, online, that lets me draw out ideas, throw the virtual marker to someone else where they can very easily wipe over everything, draw over everything, make a mess of what we are doing and then look at what we’ve created. I want it to somehow mimic how we used to walk into an office and see it as we walked to our desks and sat down, pondering what we wrote before. That’s

March 23, 2022

Greg Thomas

Not Everything is a Technology Solution

It’s easy to think everything needs to have a technology component to it. If something is broken there “must be an app” for that or there must be a tool for it. My favorite example is when I left a job many years back and when I followed up with one of the developers they said – “we replaced you with a bunch of tools” – (pun intended and funny) – but it didn’t do what they want. Not everything requires a software solution to make it work, but we’ve started defaulting to it because it’s easier to download something

March 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Big Game

Everyone wants to play in the big game. We spend all our time working up towards it, focused on it, moving forward toward it, and becoming something from it.  We put so much into that big meeting that we feel as though everything is based on it and nothing else will matter. And then it’s over. And we start again.