Articles for category: Growth

January 20, 2024

Greg Thomas

You’re Never Drama Free

Despite not wanting Drama, it’s always there, lurking behind the scenes waiting to pounce when something, anything goes wrong and throws you for a loop. It’s waiting for an opening when you’re weak, when you’re tired, when you think you’ve had enough. It starts with an IM, a meeting that ends early, a coffee in the morning, something innocuous always. But it does always have the potential to end the same way, with you looking at it and saying – “Not today.”

January 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

Escape the Distractions

If you can close your mind to the distractions all around you. You’ll figure out what you want most and how to get there. But if you never close all the distractions, you’ll never be able to figure out how to get there.

January 18, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s Your Meeting Limit?

How many meetings can you handle in a week? 5? 10? 15? 1? 2? If your limit is something like 12?  Why are you taking more?  Why are you accepting more? The failure in our meetings is that no one knows what our actual limit is so we keep scheduling simply because we can. We can keep pouring water into a glass because there is space in it, it doesn’t mean we want to drink all that water.

January 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Rework Remote Work

Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t apply anymore, so now we need to come up with a new set of parameters. A new context to working, engaging, and keeping people involved

January 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Meetings Lack Ambition

If your meeting is set up to simply “be there” and “discuss things”, your meeting will never amount to much. Meetings should have purpose, direction, creativity, and perseverance that roll themselves up into the ambition of what is trying to be achieved. You would code through the night to get your product out the door. You would work late into the evening to get the competitive analysis done before deciding what features to implement. You would grind out test cases to ensure the best quality product. Your meetings should have the same ambition that you do.

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