Articles for category: Delivery

Who do you Surround Yourself with?

You can’t always choose the best of the best of the best to surround yourself with. And you shouldn’t. You won’t learn as much when everything is perfect and everything is awesome. You need the struggle. You need the hiccups. You need the ups and downs and the disparate personalities to help you get better and grow. Those are the conditions that will help you grow and will help you teach other people how to level up and grow as well. Don’t go for perfect, go for tough, challenging, complicated opportunities – that’s where you grow, that’s where you deliver

August 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

Informal Leadership Always Wins

For the singular reason that there are no expectations. You can’t screw it up. You can’t do wrong. You can only try. You can only lead with what you know. And people will follow you not by what a chart says or what they are told but rather by what you do, what actions you take, what decisions you make and where you go. Find the Informal Leaders, they are experts in growth, team building, community and leadership and we need more of them.

August 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Rushing to Queue

I’m still amazed to this day that when an airplane lands and the seatbelt sign goes off, people jump up faster than they ever have in their life and rush to be the first one off the plane. They never are. They can only go so far, till someone at the front stands up and takes their spot. So now they are stuck waiting for someone else before they can do anything else. They thought they would get off first but they forgot the door has to be opened before anyone can move. The funny part of it all, is

August 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Need to Be Official

You can apply for the job and not get it. You can read all the books and not pass the test. You can take the course and fail. It doesn’t mean you can’t do it? It doesn’t mean you can’t lead your own way? It doesn’t mean you can’t try again. Not being Official doesn’t mean you’re not good enough, it means there’s another path that you’re meant to take.

August 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Change the Game

No one ever said the game was cut it stone. You MUST do this job before taking that role. You MUST work here before you can work there. You MUST learn this before doing that. You MUST go to this school before applying there. You MUST take this course before you can think of starting that program. The game is yours to play and yours to change the rules on. Change is what make the game better.