Articles for category: Drive

April 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bottle Up the Good

We are at a time in our lives where things are not going as great as we wish they would be (or maybe should have been). Where we are working as hard as we can, doing everything we can to achieve one goal – staying safe. And that one goal is falling by the wayside. In the battle to see where we are at, we are checking the scale daily to see if we are going up or down or staying the same. It’s the complete opposite of what you are supposed to do when trying to lose weight –

April 18, 2021

Greg Thomas

Form vs Function

My level of anxiety, worry, spidey sense and big flashing red alarm warnings starts going off when I’m in the midst of a heavy presentation only to have someone at the back ask the following question. “Is this the right template that we should be using?” At that point, I want to stop presenting and look around the room to get a feel for what is being said. Is the “beauty and prettiness” of what is being presented more valuable than the function of what is actually being presented. If everything else being presented was garbage would we be just

April 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

It Gets Better…

When you’re honest. When you tell it like it is. When you don’t sugarcoat it. When you’re upfront. When you don’t speak in hushed tones or backrooms. When the answers are clear and concise. And most importantly, when you say – “I don’t know.” Those three words are the starting point to making anything better because then you know where you stand, where your team stands and what you need to do move forward. Before that though, it’s all words.

April 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

Begin… Again

There is a scene in any number of action movies where the new student tries to defeat their teacher and ultimately fails. Then the teacher says – “Again” or “Begin” or “Start” – or anything to that ilk that forces the new student to dust themselves off, shake off whatever happened, and get back up and try it again. In the beginning it starts with anger, the student is frustrated, but then, slowly it changes to acceptance, they see the cracks of success starting to shine through. They see pieces coming into view and then there is the breakthrough. We

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