Articles for category: Drive

November 27, 2021

Greg Thomas

Branching Out

I get this hunger that starts gnawing at me now and again to go and try something completely different. Go learn a new platform. Go figure out a new way to exercise. Try out a new planning tool. Pivot your approach to clients. Try a different writing style. It doesn’t always work out perfectly or go smoothly, but I always come out that much better for having put the time into learning something new and trying something different.  I might not stick with it till the end, but it gives me a new perspective and I think, in the end,

November 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

What a Process Should Do For You

We come up with processes, systems, and patterns daily in an effort to get work done. To improve our lives. To simplify our delivery. To make things easier. To generate more value from what we are already doing. To show us where we need to improve. If at the core of whatever process you are building, does not meet some or all of those goals, then the question must be asked – what are you building your process to do?

November 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Spammers and News

There is a direct correlation between news events and call spam. When the pandemic struck, there were many calls I started to receive for owed money (from fictitious departments… c’mon guys put some effort into it). Now that borders have opened between countries I am getting calls for packages I have ordered waiting at the border (maybe it’s that ruler I ordered four months ago). The point is, if your business is entirely driven by reactionary events where you are waiting for something to happen to grow (not that I am encouraging the growth of call spam) you will always

November 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bad Meeting Habits

We all have them. We also don’t like to talk about them because admitting that we aren’t the best in our meetings would be tantamount to admitting that we are part of the problem when it comes to every meeting that we attend. And that’s the point. Every meeting you attend that goes sideways, you are part of the problem. You are also part of the solution if you’re willing to admit what has gone wrong.

November 18, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Plan Takes Time

I used to work with someone who had an email signature that read – “Your failure to plan does not constitute an emergency on my part”. When I would be up late fixing bugs, I would come back to this line and think about this line – “whose emergency is this?”. You can’t plan for everything, but you can plan for your need. I recently finished a month-long planning and strategy session with a client.  At the end of it, they wanted all the answers, all the plans, everything laid out from them from A to B.  I sensed this,

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