Articles for category: Growth

February 19, 2024

Greg Thomas

Are you Leading Stress?

If all around you is stress, chances are you aren’t shipping much. Chances are you’re behind, you’re not on time and nothing is helping you move forward. It’s not for lack of effort, but rather because you’re focused on leading only one thing – stress. But, you can’t lead stress. You can manage stress – you can mitigate it, break it down, isolate its touch points, figure out what is causing it, and adjust from there. But you can’t lead it, no one starts off leading stress. This is where a manager helps the leader manage the stress to that

February 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Powerpoint Policy

When someone brings up a PowerPoint at a meeting what’s your first thought? How many slides until it’s over? How long is this going to take? What template did they use? Why are they using transitions? What value is this bringing? Amazon has an infamous no Powerpoint policy, does it work?  Does everyone remember everything they need to say? What if instead of having to talk about how to do something, you showed them what you did and how you’re doing it? Would that be more powerful than Powerpoint? Then start there, start with what would be the most powerful

February 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

One Last Try

You’ve one last try. Make it worth everything. But don’t regret something you did and don’t throw out everything you are just to get the win.

February 7, 2024

Greg Thomas

Meeting Follow-Ups

How many times have you shown up to the next meeting with no one having done their follow-ups for the next meeting? Next time it happens, that person gets no follow-ups, delegate to someone else who gets theirs done. If no one is getting follow-ups done, don’t assign them – sounds bad – but if no one’s doing what you need them to, then either you have the wrong roster in the meeting that cares or people are too overloaded to take on more work. That means the problem your meeting is trying to solve isn’t the top priority and

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