February 20, 2021
When it needs to get done. When we needed it yesterday. When the customer is asking for it. When the project plan says it must be done. Until you look at what you are doing, how you are doing it and where you need to go with it, it’s all imagined, it’s all an idea, it’s all a concept. There is no rush, unless you make one. And if you’re making one, the only people you are hurting is your team.
February 19, 2021
When a catastrophic issue arises on your project, the immediate push is to get in there and fix it as soon as possible. How can we patch? How can we get to the bottom of it? How can we make it work better? We do this, without fully understanding the extent or impact to the problem as a whole. We do this without possible fully understanding all the issues at large but wanting to do something, to show progress and make it look like we have resolved the issue. The better strategy is to take a step back and look
February 17, 2021
So many posts are geared towards that one single format in title that can lead to an increase in metrics. Take your message and cram it into that format. Does it fit? Doesn’t matter, because it needs to, if it gets watered down on the way out, it’s a problem with your content. Writing content, consuming content, in different ways, is what makes it incredible – so if your work does fall into the format of “Top 5 things to do when..” because depending on the situation it can change dramatically and you want people to know what to do
February 13, 2021
The statement arises from a meeting that easily could have been an email. When I hear this there are generally two thoughts that go through my head. This meeting was a presentation (there is a difference), in which case, it wouldn’t work as an email because than people wouldn’t benefit from hearing each other’s thoughts and questions (which is where the magic in a presentation occurs). If it was meant to be an email, but you didn’t participate in the email, will changing it to an email make you more interested in the topic and willing to contribute to the
February 11, 2021
Try a hashtag and get some retweets and likes. Now what did the use of that wonderful hashtag get you? You could write anything in the world and use that hashtag and get the same number of retweets, likes and engagements? Your business/side hustle/portfolio/project isn’t driven by the number of followers, shares or likes that you get – it’s driven by what you do, when you need to do it.
10 hours ago
Greg Thomas
Greg Thomas
3 days ago
Greg Thomas
