Articles for category: Drive

April 27, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Anatomy of a Good Quote

It motivates you. It reminds you what you should be doing. It makes you smile. It provides a connection between you and everyone else looking at it. Or perhaps it does nothing at all and you simply keep scrolling on by on your feed du jour. Maybe you are sick and tired of quotes and all you want to do is turn them off, never to see them again. But if something so small has the power to embolden, push, strengthen, empower and connect with you on such a profound level, in the span of 10 seconds perhaps the problem isn’t

April 18, 2017

Greg Thomas

LinkedIn Automation Gone Bad

LinkedIn is a great tool for meeting people in your field of expertise or finding those with similar interests that you might share. But where LinkedIn has an inadvertent habit of going bad is where it has started to provide stock responses to invites. “Congrats on the new Job” “Not Interested” “Thank you” The intent is there to make our interactions faster to process so we can continue on the line to more, more, more but the quality is decreasing. Prompt me to congrats a colleague on their promotion but leave the content to me so I can write something personal they will appreciate it.

April 4, 2017

Greg Thomas

Do you Need a Business Card?

I was at an event a few weeks ago where I was asked if I had a Business Card. To which I responded No. I could get them printed up for a small cost but then I’d have to carry them around with me, have them on my desk, and when some minor detail changed, have them re-printed up again only to have a new box of firestarter sitting on my desk. The problem with Business Cards is that they don’t tell the whole story of who you are as a person, what you offer and where you are going. So

March 28, 2017

Greg Thomas

The One Rule of Email

If you wouldn’t say it someone’s face, don’t say it in an email, because eventually it will get back to that person. The rule applies to those in the following Age Category… 0 – 110 If you are older than 110, I hope you are doing something else other than Email.

March 24, 2017

Greg Thomas

Don’t Monitor LinkedIn

Do you monitor your team’s Twitter activity? What about their Facebook posts? Are you an avid fan of their late night snaps? Or perhaps you think their Instagram stories are AMAZING? Whatever the reason, LinkedIn should be treated no differently. Don’t get flustered when someone on your team update’s their LinkedIn account, be encouraged that they speak so highly of your organization and want everyone to know.  If they are starting a new blog or putting up some demo code, share it out with the rest of the team and support them in their endeavors. LinkedIn is the greatest tool to