Articles for category: Drive

February 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

When to Break a Cycle

Cycles are great to get into, they are predetermined, we know the outcome, and we can see the start, middle, and end – they are awesome at helping generate predictability and visibility into what we are doing. But they can go bad, they can wear you down, and they can take you down the wrong path simply out of habit. When we transition from intent and action to auto-pilot in our systems we fall into the trap of – “this is how we’ve always done it” – which is a defense mechanism to the cycle you are in, not a

February 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Training Investment Dilemma

Incremental training investments will ALWAYS beat out the week-long conference, the half-day marathon leadership session, the full-day retreat – those are still good “things” to train at, but they are not the training that will push you forward. Kobe Bryant gives a great talk on this (less than 2 mins).  I’m not advocating for getting up at 3am to train, but the message is pure and simple – you put in 30 minutes today, that’s 30 minutes you didn’t put in yesterday – you keep putting in that time 3 – 4 days over the course of a week, that’s

January 28, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Biggest Remote Challenge

The biggest remote challenge isn’t about what your office setup is, what your meetings look like, the lunchtime pub sessions, how many coffee meetings you have in a day, or what entrance music you are playing. It’s about turning up every day and making sure it’s the best day for everyone on your team. Things go wrong because of Apathy, we let them drag out more when we are remote, when we are in person, we see the effects, we feel them and we know we have to fix them, but in remote, cracks can form, they are small, unnoticeable

January 26, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Feeling of Failure

No, you didn’t get the award, it went to someone else. No, you didn’t get the promotion, that went to someone else as well. No, you didn’t get the thing you were after all the work you put into it and now you have to start all over again. It’s easy to feel like a failure, and it’s easy to give in to those feelings but what we need from you now is to put that aside, tweak what you are doing and focus on what’s next. Because what’s next will be better than today, if you let you’re willing