Articles for category: Drive

January 2, 2019

Greg Thomas

Fit-Can-Gap

A fit gap analysis is a tool used to determine proper fit (i.e., is this a good idea) versus the gaps that exist (i.e., what will we have to do to meet our end goal). Two questions that should come out of every Fit Gap? One – Are we comparing for the correct fit? I.e., is that we are agreeing “fits” really what we want to fit? Just because a particular product can “do” something does that mean it does that thing the way we want to do? If the answer is no – the response is no fit and

December 31, 2018

Greg Thomas

Be Bad at Something

Super Bad. So Bad that you are confused where to start. So Bad that when you do start, and for the next 15x theraefter, you continually fall on your face having to pull yourself up to try again. So Bad that when you stare at the desk where you will do your greatest work in anything else you’ll shy away because it makes you feel like crap. And then do it and keep doing it until your bad becomes someone else’s good and then get bad at it again as you reach for the next level. It’s not easy, but

December 28, 2018

Greg Thomas

Think Before You Build

When we have the glimmer of a new project in our minds we immediately think – Build, Build, Build. When what we really need are people to help us – Think, Think, Think. But thinking isn’t building. It’s not as cool to have a few people thinking versus having a lot of people building. It doesn’t sound at all like progress. It sounds more like Empire Building – get lots of resources, throw them in a room, hope it all works out. But it never does. The best first step you can take with your new project is to Think

December 27, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Scores Don’t Matter

On the show – “Whose Line Is it Anways” – the best line is by the host – “Where the scores are made up and the points don’t matter.” (To some extent they do as is the case with school, certications and everything else). I’ve never been a big fan of tests and exams only because they are the oldest method of gaming in the history of learning. Stay up all night, memorize everything, expunge it the next day, rinse and repeat. Want to really understand that complicated Math problem? Give it an application, give it a function, a use

December 25, 2018

Greg Thomas

Relax

If you miss one day it will be okay. It will be better than okay. It will be great. Because hopefully you’re spending it with the people you love that you steal moments from all year to make an impact.