Month: January 2024

January 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Finding the Plot

We go onto wikipedia to find the plot of a movie we didn’t want to watch the rest of or a book we didn’t want to finish. We have that innate urge to know what happened because as we sat there reading or watching, we couldn’t figure it out. The same goes for your team, if you can’t find the plot, if you can’t direct it, if you can’t call it out – all your team is doing each day, is trying to figure out what it is, wondering why they are there, and what they should be focused next

January 5, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Same Engine

Many video games are based on similar engines and formulas. They know what works and they follow that plan, new games come along because the engine is proven and they re-use it to save money. The formula stays the same with little to no improvement, costs decrease, and the need to do “well” drops because development time was saved and we can do “meh”. Or you can stay in a hole for a while, or you can build something new, something that changes the landscape and is spoken about in reverence for many, many years (I’m looking at you Halo,

January 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

Why Attend a Bad Meeting?

You wouldn’t attend a bad movie (or you might start and then leave?) You wouldn’t go to a bad restaurant? You wouldn’t continue going to a bad store you’ve had a continually bad experience with? So why keep going to a bad meeting where you are getting nothing out of?  Where nothing good happens?  Where all you get is a another 5 minutes of your life back at the end?

January 3, 2024

Greg Thomas

Same Trends, Same Result

Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops.  Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why we would not want to do it in our daily life). So are we going to keep doing the same thing, hoping for a different

January 2, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Learner Within

The New Year started 2 days ago. Have you finished all your goals and met all your resolutions? Are you executing as well as you said you would? Are you doing this now but when you go back to work everything will come bearing down on you and you’ll be stopped in your tracks? Find your Learner within, that which can sustain and meet your schedule, that which doesn’t have the expectation to get everything done within 15 minutes. That whose focused on growth over the year(s) not the days and weeks when all that has changed is a number.

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