Articles for category: Drive

November 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Can you Learn Something New?

Everyone answers yes to this. Yes, I want to learn something new. Yes, I can learn something new. Yes, I am a sponge, feed me with all this newfound knowledge. But then when it’s time to put into practice what has been learned, to go through the uncomfortable steps to unlearn the bad and get better, we stop, we grind to a halt and we decide that we really don’t want to learn, to change, but that it’s much easier to simply say we do. The question to ask yourself isn’t if you can learn something new, it’s if you’re

October 31, 2022

Greg Thomas

Finding the Right Question

The hardest part of any problem-solving exercise is trying to find the right question to ask. The one that goes beyond the symptoms and looks at the root cause of what is happening and what you need to do to go forward to make it work. In some situations, it’s the question we don’t want to ask, the one we don’t want to acknowledge because changing our question to the right one would be an acknowledgment that we were initially wrong. But you weren’t “wrong”, you were simply figuring out how to get there – and as long as you’re

October 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Can you Grind it Out?

There is always the base work to get done before success is achieved. It’s called the Grind. It’s showing up, getting it done, learning more, trying more, failing more, succeeding eventually, never giving up, and working as hard as you can because one day, one moment, one time – you will have reached what you had hoped to achieve. You will have ground it out and the question is whether it will be worth it.  

October 28, 2022

Greg Thomas

What’s your Contribution?

We all know about the group work exercise where only a few people carry the load of the entire group. Where only a few show up from the first day to the last. Where only a few do what is required and go beyond what is asked for the success of the group. Now imagine if everyone in the group was contributing at that level what could be accomplished? That there is the difference between a good team and an amazing team.

October 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

When the Project is Ready?

If the answer takes an hour of meeting with pontificating questions that challenge that simple question, then there is no need for the meeting. Instead, there is an immediate need to figure out where you are, after that it’s simple math. A simple calculation… Here is where we are + What has changed that we didn’t know before + Our Updated Buffer (notice no subtraction of “effort” based theatrics)