Month: March 2023

March 21, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Leonard Effect

I used to work with this guy, we’ll call them Leonard (real person), many years ago. At the end of a project, Leonard had a horrific review, he thought he could skate by on past achievements and not have to put the work in. Turns out his manager thought otherwise and was let go. Leonard pleaded and pleaded and was brought back but with a reduced salary and responsibilities. Two things could have happened at this point; Leonard could have said no way, I’m out of here, I can’t believe you’re treating me like this and gone somewhere else. Leonard

March 20, 2023

Greg Thomas

How Hard you Work

How Hard you work determines how successful you’ll be. It’s that simple. If you are not having to work hard, it’s most likely because someone worked hard before you and you are now able to leverage that work. Someone had to work hard for you be successful, it’s either going to be you or someone else.

March 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

It’s Gonna Work

It’s Gonna Work. It’s Not Gonna Work. It’s Gonna Work. It’s Not Gonna Work. It’s Gonna Work. It’s Not Gonna Work. It’s Gonna Work. It’s Not Gonna Work. You can keep having this discussion with yourself and your team, or you can just try and see how it goes.

March 18, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Open Net

Scoring an open-net goal should be easy, but it’s not. It’s the dream, there is no opposition, no complicated shot needed and all you need to do is drag it in with a little tap. And yet we miss so many of them. We become hyper-focused on not missing because it should be an easy goal, it should be a guaranteed gimme but instead, we forget everything we have practiced up until that point – the shot we have taken a thousand times and we do something different, something we are stressed over, something else. When what we need to

March 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

Validation vs Feedback

Validation is the pat on the back that you did a good job (irrespective of whether you truly did do a good job). Feedback is the understanding that you didn’t do a good job, but now you know where to focus next time to not only do a good job but surpass what you did. Not everyone wants feedback, even when they are begging for it, they want validation because they did a lot to get there – regardless of whether it was right or wrong. The tricky part of the leader is to crave a team that wants feedback,

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