Articles for category: Growth

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

November 8, 2016

Greg Thomas

Stop Talking about Change

I strongly dislike conversations about Change. I like Change, but eschew conversations about it. Long, drawn out conversations, with many milestones, devil’s advocates discussions that lead into follow-ups to the follow-ups and target dates for delivery some time next month at the end of a cycle that may or may not happen. It get’s exhausting. What I do like is change. The conversations that take 15 minutes and establish a new direction that everyone moves forward with. Maybe it’s not 15 minutes, maybe it’s an hour or a day long session – but the intent, the direction, the vision at

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