Articles for category: Drive

October 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

You Won’t Get There Overnight

But you will bit by bit, each day, if you put in the effort. This month is Inktober – one of many prompts across many disciplines focused on incremental results, not over a day, but days, hours, and bit by bit. Seth Godin has crystallized this perfectly when he talks about progress – Drip by Drip.

October 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Let them Fail

If they don’t fail, they will never succeed. Let them screw up, let them make the mistake, and help them get better so the next mistake they make, they are further along in the process.

September 29, 2022

Greg Thomas

Review your Metrics

I generally see metrics as what it is – # of users on the site, and # of tickets logged – the factual, the undisputed. It doesn’t mean they are golden, it doesn’t mean they are the absolute truth, it means they are the start of something, the jump-off point, the easy calculation to kick off something else. They are the starting point for what comes next and if they don’t make sense, find a different set.

September 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Alternate Path

I’ve been watching For all Mankind as of late and aside from the sci-fi premise, it’s the alternate path that’s that we could go down that makes it truly interesting.  Who knows what could have or would have been, but the alternate path, the other way things could go is a treat to watch. There has never been one path to accomplish a goal, there are always many paths and it doesn’t hurt to take a look at the alternate ones when stuck on your current one.

September 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Inevitable Time Crunch

No matter how well you plan, it will always happen, the inevitable time crunch – too much work to do, much too little time. And then comes one more thing, and another, and another, the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. Sometimes this is the case, other times, it’s our perception of the amount of work to do in the crunch.  We see the pile and think it’s insurmountable until we start working at. This is why all you need to do, all you really need to do, is work on the pile, dig into it and let the