Articles for category: Growth

December 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Expansion Experiment

I think what helps any of us grow, in any field, is seeing the different approaches that people take in totally different fields to solve similar problems. Whether it be a function of leadership, team development, personal growth where there is alignment between the fields of interest. Even more interesting is to learn how people approach problems I have never seen, heard or even thought of and seek to understand how they approached this problem. With this in mind, I went to my LinkedIn feed and noticed that the bulk of people I interact with are all in some way

November 29, 2016

Greg Thomas

Leave it till the morning

There is a little, unpublicized feature on your phone called Do Not Disturb where you can block emails coming into you during specific intervals or ad-hoc. I never knew about it until my daughter started to use it because her phone would keep dinging all night long. Now I use it between 10pm and 6am. This doesn’t mean I don’t get the message, I do and sometimes, by force of a horrible habit, I check it before I go to bed. And this is where things can go terribly wrong… I might have already had a stressful day and before

November 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Inverse Answer

Generally, when speaking or presenting, we ask the audience to ask questions. As a presenter, you WANT and even NEED them to ask questions. It’s a bit of validation into what you have probably just invested an insurmountable amount of time and energy in, in making this presentation, to get some feedback and generate discussion. If you don’t want your question/answer period to end at 1 question to do the following; Think about the question before speaking. Establish the common ground from which both you and the questioner can start from – what industry? do you use the same technologies?

November 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

That Communal Place

Whether it is SLACK, the kitchen, the water cooler, the meeting room, the couch by the doorway, Jeff’s desk or maybe even your Dining Room table (that has been missing for way too long), it’s important to have that communal place – whether virtual or physical – where everyone goes to relax, recharge, rethink and regroup. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, you don’t need leather chairs and a keg.  It can be as simple as a card table with 4 wobbly chairs. It can be as simple as a card table with 4 wobbly chairs or an IM Group

November 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

iMessage is the New/Old BBM

Remember the reason why you were not willing to switch from your Blackberry to the new iPhone or Android phone years ago? Remember the reason you kept holding on until the very end because you thought you’d be getting all those new goodies that the next generation of smartphones had? Take a second and think about it – what was really holding you back. Now take a look at your phone du jour – iPhone or Android. How similar are the reasons for doing the exact same thing now? I’d imagine very similar. Not much has changed – BBM is

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