Articles for category: Drive

July 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Changing Ideas Mid-Flight

How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you frozen in a panicked state. But what may come from it, might blow you away. Or it might fall flat. Here’s the problem though, you

July 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

My Part is Done

This is one of those knives through the heart type of thing. You have a team working towards a delivery, everyone has their piece that they are responsible for. At the meeting to discuss where things are on the deliverable, the team clearly has a lot left to do and is working through how they are going to accomplish that. You’ve just gone through all the issues when someone chimes in – “My part is done, so there is nothing left to do for me.” When the team is struggling, there is always work left to do. The team delivers

June 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Sounds of Work

What does that sound like to you? The sound of a keyboard furiously hitting the keys? The sound of a chainsaw revving up? The sound of knuckles cracking? The sound of laughter and excitement? The sound of silence? Whatever it is, we all have them, they are the sounds that when we hear them, we know amazing work is going to get done, be produced and wow us. Find your sounds.

June 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Continually Postponed Meetings

Pushing out a meeting once is okay, acceptable, go for it, do it. Pushing it out twice, that should raise eyebrows and prompt questions. Why? What do you need? How can we help? Pushing it out a third time? Before you click send, look at that meeting, will it actually happen by that time? Do people need to know that it’s scheduled to feel safe about what they are doing? All you are producing at this point is occupying space in people’s minds and calendars, you aren’t producing anything. Cancel it, schedule it when it’s needed, free up space and

June 18, 2021

Greg Thomas

Gearing Up

A good leader knows when to gear up. They know when there is work to do. If they don’t know what it is going to take, they know how to figure it out. They don’t have their finger on the pulse, their team is the pulse and they live and breath it. They know when it’s time to drop a gear and go faster and they know when it’s time to hit the higher ones. Now is the time to the Gear Up.