Articles for category: Growth

May 30, 2018

Greg Thomas

Make Time for the Big Picture

Not the picture in 1 month, 3 months or next year. But the big picture, the one that is 5 years down the road, 10 years down the road – that’s the game you need to be focusing on. That’s the picture you need to figure out a way to make less fuzzy and more clear. That’s the picture that’s worth working on and the one that you requires to make time for each and every day. If you’re always focused on what comes next and what failure today means for tomorrow, then you’re missing where you could be in

May 17, 2018

Greg Thomas

Your Favourite Meal

If you had your favourite meal each day, every day, how long would it take until it stopped being your favourite? Two days? A week? A month? Longer? Maybe you started off in a job you really liked.  It was the perfect job, the bestest job in the world. But you’ve been doing it for 5 years and the last year you know you’ve been going through the motions so the “favourite” part is kind of dead to you. So what’s next, where do you go from here?  Is it no longer your favourite?  Is it time to do the 360

May 15, 2018

Greg Thomas

Digging Out of a Mountain

Start at the bottom. Work your way up. Or get a bigger shovel. Or maybe a smaller one. Wait, sorry I got it wrong, yes start at the top, it’s easy pickings. Actually, that’s a good idea too, go for the easy pickings and the big wins and then focus on the harder stuff. My bad, focus on the riskier items first, that way you are able to test them longer and get the hard stuff out of the way. Has someone done this before?  Maybe you can ask for advice. Or maybe there’s an online course you can take

May 11, 2018

Greg Thomas

Leaders get it wrong

Substitute the word Leader for… Mentor Manager Supervisor Coach Team Lead Project Lead Senior of ___________ Head of __________ Dean of _________ CEO And the list goes on. What doesn’t go on is our patience when people in these positions fail. We harp on “failure is awesome”, “everyone fail“, “failing helps you grow” until the people in those positions fail. I’ve tried a lot of different ideas out as a Manager, Leader, VP, whatever the role – some worked, some didn’t, some were abject failures that I shook my head at when all was said was done. That’s life, that’s

May 1, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Dread in Buying a Car

This really happened. I had to go get a new car recently, so we went to a dealership. Before entering the premises, we were already dreading the entire process (how sad, we haven’t even done anything and are already dreading it). We get there, go for a test drive (supervised of course, because we might be crazy and try to steal it). We asked for a quote, which unfortunately the salesperson couldn’t give us because it’s too complicated to do without a computer.  So we sat down and generated the quote (which apparently requires our phone number for the program

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