Articles for category: Growth

December 6, 2018

Greg Thomas

Are you waiting for It to happen?

What is It that you are waiting for? Is It the right moment? The right idea? The right motivation? The right path? If you don’t know what It is than what are you even waiting for? Nothing?  Something? Instead of waiting for It to happen, why not try these other approaches; What is It?  Define it. When is It?  If you know what you’re waiting for then how long are you willing to wait? Why is It? Why are you waiting instead of doing something about it now? These aren’t Rocket Science, but so often when you talk to people,

December 5, 2018

Greg Thomas

Nobody Wants to be an Assistant

Until they are doing it. Until they are learning new things that they thought they “knew”. Until they start to see things from a different perspective. Until they get to focus on a different set of skills they never got to do as the Leader. The only thing wrong with being an Assistant is to think you can’t contribute the same or more than you were before.

December 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

New Leader, New Leader, New Leader !!!!!

The promise of someone to come in, take the reigns and save the day is always met with one of two responses. Great – here are all our problems, they’re all yours now. Whatever. Most believe the second to be the incorrect response when really it is a sign as to the team having a good understanding of the problem and realizing that throwing people at it will not solve it. The first sets this new person up to fail against all odds trying to fix every problem that has ever happened only because they have the title of Leader

November 26, 2018

Greg Thomas

Refactor What?

It’s not only for code. It’s for that last proposal. Your Invoicing process. Your leadership skills. Your team’s development. Your goals. Your side-hustles. It’s for all of it. Don’t make the common mistake and stop at your code.