Month: May 2024

May 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

Pushing an Idea

A proposed idea is easy to turn down. There hasn’t been any investment, there’s been no plus or minus, there’s no loss if you do nothing. Investing in an idea is where commitment starts to happen, even though doubts still linger – will it work?, can it work?, do they really want it?, is it worth it? what else could I be doing with my time? All those doubts start to permeate the shell of your idea as they try to break down its value. It’s here, the initiator of the idea, the creator, has to take hold of the

May 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Meetings Gone Wrong

This is funny, this is also for real. The part that gets me is the people applauding the basic achievement. Let this be the standard for what you don’t want your meetings to be.

May 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

How to ask for Software Feedback

The easy way is to put a popup in someone’s face after they have completed working on a task. You probably won’t get the best response (especially if the task they just completed didn’t work the way they expected). It’s also not best to ask immediately after they log in (they did after all just start working and probably haven’t got to anything). Also, don’t call them from some random 800 number, everyone ignores those now. Popup chat is also not great when they are in the middle of an outage. If you want people’s feedback, if you want their

May 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

How to get people to try your new Product

Ask. And mean it, “Tell me what you think, is it garbage?  Is it good?  Is it a mess?  Does it do what you want it to do?” We use to invite users to come to our offices to try out new versions of our products. Users, in our offices. No remote or virtual calls, in-person connections where we saw their faces scrunch up at a horribly implemented feature. And then we’d go out to dinner, laugh, and do it again the next day. Getting people to try your product isn’t hard, listening to the feedback that comes with it

May 12, 2024

Greg Thomas

But Not Today…

Anything can, might and will happen. But if it’s not what you want to happen, then having the mindset of “Not Today…” will help you get there. It might still happen, but the impact on you will be less, it will not hold you back. What you are saying “Not Today…” to isn’t that it will happen, but that it will not stop you.

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