Articles for category: Initiative

6 days ago

Greg Thomas

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

In University, I took a critical thinking course with a slant towards Psychology.  Others took critical thinking courses with a slant towards Philosophy. I’m sure there are other options out there. Regardless, they were two (separate) books, you had to pore through.  They weren’t easy reads, and they made you question many things. But they taught me how to approach problems, how to break things down, how to make the complex simplified. In the age of AI, getting to the root of a user’s problem is the most valuable resource you have.  Anyone can go type into AI and get

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

How your Team is using AI

As a leader, if you are not asking yourself this question, you are not leading your team into the next era. Are they coding with it? Are they writing manuals? Are they letting it work for them? Is the team sharing skills? Are we all using different back-ends? You don’t have to have all the answers, but you need to be asking all the questions; someone else will, and they’ll be the ones people will be looking to lead the team.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

The AI Pivot

If you’re not considering this as part of the product, you’re moving backward. The massive pivot that is AI is reshaping every aspect of what we do. This pivot feels like it is happening overnight, but it will be longer. It only feels shorter because we are all going through it, whereas generally, one industry goes through a pivotal change at a time, but now it’s everyone. And if you haven’t felt it yet, that’s okay, you get to plan your pivot before it does hit, because it is coming.

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

Maintaining your Expertise

Our expertise is currently in an evolutionary stage of change. You might have titles and awards that you have earned, but does AI answer everything you do better? It’s a hard pill to swallow, but yes, it truly might – but it hasn’t seen or done what you have done.  So the next question becomes – what is your value to evolve to in this area of growth and development? What your expertise is in today might not be what it will be a year from now, so the question is, how will your expertise evolve, and what steps will

2 weeks ago

Greg Thomas

It’s Not About What You Know

It’s Not About What You Know. It’s about what you are willing to figure out. How much effort are you willing to put in? How committed are you to understanding the problem? We’re continually focusing on what AI knows that we don’t but we are forgetting what we have known and done for years.