Articles for category: Drive

July 14, 2015

Greg Thomas

LinkedIn Invites Should not be about the Numbers

I used LinkedIn everyday – it is a great tool, but like any tool it sometimes gets abused and we start to develop bad habits around it. I read an article a few years ago that you should reach out to whoever you want to be associated with, the kinds of people you want to know and meet and send them a connection request on LinkedIn so you can connect with them. I’d like to update that request with a few ancillary points; If you really want to talk to them, there are many other channels other than LinkedIn to

July 7, 2015

Greg Thomas

A word on Improving Meetings

Meetings are horrible, albeit necessary – you need to talk with people to resolve an issue, sometimes they are not always in front of you (in an airport, at home with sick kids, in the branch office, etc) and you need to nail someone down with the hopes of getting their undivided attention.  There are two problems I see today with meetings – Engagement and Attendance. Engagement The worst part of any meeting is when you ask someone remotely to provide their thoughts and they ask you to repeat the question – not because they are trying to figure out

May 19, 2015

Greg Thomas

My Three Categories of Work

I think I was packing for a trip somewhere when I started going through the mental checklist of what tasks on my plate had to be completed before I went anywhere.  These ranged from family to work to personal to house to car to anything really, but in the end, they all came back to three core categories; Have to do, Need to do and Want to do. Have to do This is the work that just has to get done regardless of what’s going on in your life, in the extreme – just lost your arm, must get it back

March 19, 2015

Greg Thomas

Did you really need that extra mail?

How many mails come into your inbox on a daily basis? Now take that number and determine how many of those mails were actually addressed to you vs those you were cc:ed on. Now of the mails that you were cc:ed on, how many of those were actually useful or that you took action on?  (An action cannot be the action of  deleting the email). Probably close to zero right? Before email, two people could have a conversation and know they were important to the outcome of that conversation.  With email – you never know!  You could cc the world on an email thread,

February 3, 2015

Greg Thomas

How not to Prep for an Interview – Part I

I’ve been trying to figure out how to name this post because I knew from the get-go that it was going to be done in two parts where the viewpoint in Part I is from that of the person being interviewed (the interviewee) and Part II is from that of the person conducting the interview (the interviewer).  Both perspectives are in regards to how one should not conduct themselves at interviews. I’ve been involved in a least 100+ interviews, being on both side of the fence (more on the interviewer side) – can’t say 1,000+ and I am actually happy to

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