Articles for category: Growth

April 27, 2018

Greg Thomas

What everyone has forgotten about Facebook

It’s not Facebook’s fault for whatever happened to your data. They have security tools in place (albeit convoluted) that you could use to configure your privacy.  Even now, a few months later, they are somewhat improved, but still cumbersome. (hint: they are not a security company) Facebook didn’t decide to post as much as you did or like every page that highlighted a different cat dancing or where you liked to go on vacation or how much fun your friends were having at that place, in college after finals. Instead of focussing on what Facebook needs to do to protect

April 19, 2018

Greg Thomas

What is the Answer That will Make you Happy?

I’ve taken to asking people this question when they approach me in an obviously perturbed manner that is a combination of frustration, anger, confusion, or any other malcontent emotion. What is the Answer you want to hear that will make you happy? In all cases, they are immediately taken aback, not because I’m being rude (I do try to be pleasant even when the emotions are running high) but rather because they are trying to think of what answer will actually them happy. And they don’t know, they don’t know what answer they want to hear. From here you have

April 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

Come Together

Or Fall Apart. When you’re on a team, any team, in any timezone, remote or in the office, upstairs or downstairs, doing the same job or different ones, if you can’t bring them together, if you can’t come together… You’ll never be a team. You’ll just be a bunch of people, in the same place, doing some stuff and hoping that it somehow will come together. Pro Tip: It won’t. Yeah, that’s hard to hear, maybe even harder to admit if you’re the one lead the team? It’d be incredibly hard to stand up at your next team meeting and

April 5, 2018

Greg Thomas

What made you succeed?

Following the process? Doing what everyone said? Never changing direction? Staying with the status quo? Never breaking the mold? Always doing what you were told? Never trying something new? Or was it when you broke away and tried something you had never done before? Looked at the problem from a new angle? Pushed back when everyone was willing to take the hit? Now change “Succeeded” for “Grow” and see if your answers changed.

April 2, 2018

Greg Thomas

What’s the Answer You Need?

Not the Answer you want. Not the Answer that is going to change your life. But the Answer you need. What is the Answer you need to go get from A to C, to stop worrying about all the noise around you, to move on and forget where you are? That’s the question we don’t ask ourselves enough on a daily basis.  What do I need and not what do I want. Don’t confuse want with need, they have different goals, different objectives and can take you down completely different paths.

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