Articles for category: Drive

November 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Become the Owner

We’ve all been there, on a call, on a meeting, the problem is being discussed, ideas are being thrown out, but nothing is being decided.  You look around the room and see people starting to get disconnected, checking their phones, they are no longer invested and they are losing focus of the problem. It’s at this point that someone needs to take control of the situation at hand, because if they don’t, not only will this problem not get properly resolved but everything that happened before this meeting will be ignored and forgotten and all that will remain will be

November 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Understanding Schemas

If you want to use someone else’s “thing”, like an API or SDK, you are going to have to learn to use it the way they intended for it to be used. Because it was their idea, their proposal, their purpose and they put it all together in a way that makes sense to them that hopefully others will buy into. It’s their Schema for how to do the work. And if you want to get the most out of it, you’re going to need to learn to understand their schema and what every piece means if you want to

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.  

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