Articles for category: Drive

May 30, 2017

Greg Thomas

Sharing your Work

I wrote a LinkedIn article about a month ago and then decided to share it across a number of groups – groups that had 70,000+ members associated to them. As I wrote some clever summary I worried about how it would be perceived, what would people think?  Would they love it?  Would they hate it?  Would they tear it apart? I could feel my brow furrowing and sweat starting to form as I clicked “Post”. And then I waited… Waited… Still waiting… Nothing happened, a few people liked it, but that was about it. No viral sensation, no interviews, no public

May 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

Who Owns the Integration?

A while ago, I had a problem integrating the systems of two vendors together – both were advertised as being able to do such (which is why I went with them). After support calls on both sides, each side believed it was the other vendor’s problem and not theirs. In a connected economy where the bar upon dependency, trust and connection are raised higher than they ever have been here I was trying to get two partners who built a solution together to help me troubleshoot the system and work together. Neither wanted to.  When the road became rough, we fell back to the

May 17, 2017

Greg Thomas

Finding your Inner Sales

The days of having someone “do the sales” for you are over, we are all sales people now. Selling our products. Selling our services. Selling our ideas. Selling our innovation. Selling our brand. Selling our skills. In this new market economy, we are all salespeople, selling our ideas to our manager, selling your skills to a future employer, selling your products to a neighbour down the street and the list will go on. The difference today vs yesterday is the word “selling” – it’s not all for money and margins, it’s for recognition, self-confidence, quality of delivery, bonus features, brand

May 11, 2017

Greg Thomas

Go For A Walk

Or Run. Or workout. Or shoot some hoops. Take in that free karate session. Lace up your skates and go for that public skate. Weed the garden. Build a table. Go jump in a lake. Go fly a kite. Go camping. Just do something, anything, that serves to give you a break from the everything and everyday that you are going through and lets you rest, relax and refocus so when you come back you are twice as better as before. And if you’re leading a team, you should be encouraging your team to do the exact same thing.  Make it

May 5, 2017

Greg Thomas

How to play the Blame Game

The initiation of the Blame Game starts with a lack of trust between you and someone else where both are not willing to accept that the other could make a mistake and both are intent on capitalizing on that mistake for their own purposes. But it doesn’t need to be that way and instead can, and should be built, on the mutual understanding that only together can the best outcome be achieved. As an example… You: That didn’t work how I had intended. Them: Yeah, we should figure out a way to make it better next time. You: Got Time? Them: