Articles for category: Drive

October 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Conveying Ideas

You have an idea. Seven months ago, you’d march into the room, grab the marker, cover the wall with your ingenious ideas as the team behind you consumed it all. When you were done, you’d drop the marker like a mic, sit down and bask in your glory as the team reveled in all that you created for them. Perhaps it didn’t quite happen like that, but you get the idea. Conveying an idea to your team is a much easier thing on-site than off. When you’re on-site you can see the moment your team starts to drift, where they

October 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

What’s my Purpose?

This is the question we are definitely not asking enough of ourselves today. Which of course then begets the follow-ups… Where am I headed? How am I planning to get there? Am I on track? Do I need help? Where should I focus my energies? What do you I need to learn? Where do I need to learn it? But all these questions, they all start with that first question, that only you can answer. What is my purpose?

October 3, 2020

Greg Thomas

Authentic Leadership

If you want to be having those hard conversations with your team – switching roles, letting people go, moving on to different careers, etc, etc – and you want to generate a response that the team can work with and move the ball forward, you won’t be able to do it without having generated a certain level of trust and authenticity before that first discussion. Otherwise you’ll end up with a lot of people on video, nodding their heads simply to get to the end of the call. You can have authentic, deep discussions that don’t happen on video. We’ve

September 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Find Your Cave

The cave, your cave, is where your best work gets done. It can be anything, anywhere, any time. So find it and don’t share it. It is where your best work happens. When you need to go there, shut off every distraction you can. And get it all done.

September 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Learning Something New

It’s hard to learn something new when you see someone mastering it. You watch as they make it look so simple, effortless and without even breaking a sweat. And then you go to do it and you fall on your face. You don’t see the time they put into learning the skill. You don’t see the mistakes they made. You don’t see the tricks they learned. All you see is where they got to. It doesn’t matter how accomplished you are in your area of expertise, when we learn something new, we all go back to square 1. Things to

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