Articles for category: Drive

May 19, 2016

Greg Thomas

Return on Investment Cost

This isn’t a new term, it’s nothing you have not heard from. When selling products or services to customers there is an exchange that happens between the buyer and seller for the receipt of the product and/or service. To the seller it is what they need to earn in order to keep doing what they do, to the buyer, it is what they need to pay to attain the product and/or service (ps). The buyer will typically associate this with the cost of that ps when really it could not be further from the truth.  The buyer has no idea what the

May 10, 2016

Greg Thomas

Knowing is Half the Battle

Three things I learned last week that you can apply to anything, anything in life. I don’t take credit for any of these, but I find myself repeating them to myself through every interaction I have had since then.  Take a problem you are working on and apply the below. What you know Simply put, what do you know about the problem, what facts do you have in front of you that jump out at you as important and frame the view of what is forming the framework of the problem.  The facts, not the emotions and definitely not the

April 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

Week-Over-Week

Don’t you hate when you spend the day before the week to start and you meticulously lay out your week in front of you.  You’ve got your beautiful TODO lists all planned out, tasks, boards, charts, post-its, whatever it is you do to get organized and then… BOOM Monday starts and you’re already pushing pieces out to the next day, and then the next and next thing you know you’re starting to get ready for next week realizing you didn’t accomplish what you had initially intended to get done. So what happened? Did you not make the time? Did the urgent

April 11, 2016

Greg Thomas

Why give it all away?

There is an argument to be made for secrecy.  Not in protecting and hording everything that you are and have, but in keeping some of the magic behind the scenes and waiting for an audience’s reaction. Case in point – the latest Captain America film has 16+ trailers available on TrailerAddict – some with an extra second here, or a glimpse of someone there – but sixteen trailers?  Really sixteen? How many times have you gone to a movie in a recent years where you’ve come out saying – “All the good parts were in the trailers”. Now what if there had

January 26, 2016

Greg Thomas

Why no homework?

Disclaimer: I am not a teacher by trade. There is a trend in some schools to not give children homework – “It takes too long”, “I can’t observe what they are doing”, “How do I know their parents aren’t doing it for them?”, etc, etc. All potentially valid reasons for not sending homework home with children.  However, when this happens, I believe the children are being robbed of a few lessons they would not otherwise get a chance to practice. Organization  – I have all this work to do this week, I better plan out when to do what. Responsibility