Articles for category: Growth

October 27, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Conference I wanted to Attend

I signed up for a conference that was a few weeks ago. It was a one day event, only a few hours. I really to wanted to go to it to see what I could get out of it. It’s the third one I’ve missed since being remote was supposed to make going to virtual conferences that much easier. When I was “at” a conference, I could leave the laptop at the hotel, come back to it at the end of the day and work on whatever issue might have been there. That separation existed. Now the conferences I want

October 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Real Life Meetings

This popped up in my YouTube view today. Apart from Kelly kissing Darryl, this seems very much like life these days as we are all remote. Not wanting to do another Powerpoint presentation. Working multiple gigs to get by. Updates are always required. And yes, sometimes you have to wing it. And sometimes its good to have a laugh to get your meetings going.

October 24, 2020

Greg Thomas

Understanding vs Knowing

We all know about problems. There are too many that exist right now to not know about problems that governments, companies and people are trying to solve. But do we understand the problem? Do we understand and appreciate all the intricacies and minutia that go into the problem? Do we grasp the context that is forming the problem and the data that is outlining what it is and what must be done to resolve it? Too often we accept Knowing the problem as acceptance for Understanding the problem, when they are so very different. It’s that chasm between Knowing and

October 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Hard Conversations are not Getting Easier

In fact they are getting harderer and the more you keep ignoring them, the more you keep brushing them under the rug, the more you keep pushing them to the side, the harder it gets to have the conversation. When everyone was on-site (that sounds better than on-premise) you could linger in the conference room and have that side chat to discuss the outcome of the meeting and next steps. But that rarely happens in the remote world, everyone is in a hurry to jump off the call and head to their next one. For this reason, this is why

October 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

How to Find Your Purpose… Again.

Finding what you want to do is a moment of clarity that you won’t soon forget. It is a brief moment in time, punctuated by the work you do. It brings fulfillment and understanding that you never thought possible. And then, for some unknown reason, perhaps it’s the work you are doing, perhaps it’s everything else going on in your life or maybe it simply wasn’t your purpose to begin with (and you didn’t know it). Whatever the reason though, you lost your purpose. So now you need to find it again or find a new one. And you start

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