Articles for category: Drive

November 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Clueless Leader

Isn’t the most demotivating feeling in the world when your leader has no idea what you are doing, how you are doing it, why you are doing it and as a result why it’s taking longer than expected. After all, aren’t they the ones that identified the work to be done and triaged it to you? Aren’t they the ones responsible for the end deliverable? Shouldn’t they have a little more knowledge in what they are responsible for so they can talk about it with confidence and passion to others and understand how and why you might be taking longer

November 9, 2017

Greg Thomas

Curators of Content

I’ve been interested in this term of Content Marketing for a bit – intrigued really. The term itself is pretty simple, it means the marketing of content written by other people, the promotion, and sharing of work via Social Media or some other function. If you are writing content, you should share other people’s as much as you share your own. This is a good way to give back to the community no doubt. But when we are doing it with the expectation that – “I shared yours, now you share mine” – it feels a little different, a little

October 24, 2017

Greg Thomas

LinkedIn as the New Publishing Platform

Maybe, but it’s not all about the articles, the links to the articles, the groups with the links to the articles – even if they are all LinkedIn articles. It’s still about the interactions, the feeds, the posts that highlight who you are, what you think and what your opinions are. It doesn’t have to be your company event or the seminar you attended – it can be what you got from either event, expressed in text, no pictures, no tags, no SEO – just your thoughts. LinkedIn has/will always be that social network where the line between professional and

October 11, 2017

Greg Thomas

Clarifying a Problem

There are some problems that are very hard to solve, many medical ailments spring to mind. And many more in software as well. But sometimes what is preventing us from solving the problem, from properly solving the problem, isn’t the complexity of it, but our own clarity of it. What am I trying to solve? Who am I trying to solve this for? Why am I trying to solve this? What do I need to know to solve this problem? What do I know that can help me solve this problem? Ask these six questions of yourself before you start

September 27, 2017

Greg Thomas

Knowing When to Quit

I was listening to an interesting episode of Tim Ferris podcast on knowing when to quit. As also interviewed on the show, my personal favorite is Seth Godin’s “The Dip” as it connected with me right off the bat and I’ve re-read it again a number of times whenever I feel conflicted on where to go or what to do next. For me, decision time on when to stay and go comes at your lowest moment of craptivity, when you are stuck at that low point between doing something decent (not great) BUT knowing what great is and desperately wanting