Articles for category: Growth

November 29, 2023

Greg Thomas

The only Losses that Hurt

The only losses that hurt, are the ones you ignore, write off and don’t learn from. Everything else is about growth and figuring out how to succeed next time. Don’t ignore the losses, grow from them.

The Same Meeting Over and Over

If you’re in the same meeting over and over and over again. It’s time to find a meeting where you aren’t. It’s time to find a team where it’s not the same. It’s time to find a project that won’t be holding you back.

November 25, 2023

Greg Thomas

Letting Your Team Run

You’re the only one that can. You can either hold them back or see what they can do. They will make mistakes, the question is whether they are the ones on the way to getting better or the ones that would have happened regardless. Either way, you have a choice.

November 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

What Wiki’s Should Never Do

Wiki’s should never run your projects. They are a starting point, perhaps an informal collection of ideas. But once you start committing tasks to them, and putting work onto them you’ve now tasked yourself with the role of constantly updating them to show progress when what you should be doing is delivering the work to get done. Once you start managing the tasks and their display, you’re no longer doing your best work.

November 17, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Journey

The journey is the memory we talk of. It’s the in-between moments of everything that comes together when it comes together, and how it comes together. It’s the small stories that we reflect on and remember without hesitation. It’s the best of us and when we get to the destination, all we talk about are the bumps and adventures that happened in the journey. Don’t miss out on the journey, it’s not worth forgetting.