Articles for category: Growth

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

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

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