Articles for category: Initiative

March 31, 2022

Greg Thomas

Tweak what’s Wrong

But sometimes you need a tweak to make it better. And sometimes you need to ask for a second opinion when what you’re doing is getting the same results. Tweaks aren’t about throwing out everything you have done. They are about figuring out what’s missing to make it right.  

March 27, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Quiet Moment of Success

I think we are conditioned that big successes require big moments and ceremonies to make them be worthwhile and properly commemorate all the work that has gone into something. Maybe, but when I think of the successes I have had, the ones that mattered more than anything.  I can easily say, that the quiet moments away, are when I actually got to absorb what went into that success, what mattered, and just how great it was. I think we sometimes undervalue those quiet moments.

March 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

Better Marker Boards

I don’t want pretty boxes. I don’t want the connection to file shares. I don’t want auto-syncing to different apps across every phone. I want a marker board, online, that lets me draw out ideas, throw the virtual marker to someone else where they can very easily wipe over everything, draw over everything, make a mess of what we are doing and then look at what we’ve created. I want it to somehow mimic how we used to walk into an office and see it as we walked to our desks and sat down, pondering what we wrote before. That’s

Finishing Up

When you leave, you finish strong. You bring the end game. You leave no doubt who they are losing and what your potential is. You let them know they had the best and the brightest and they made the wrong trade. This isn’t about showing off or lording it over them. This is about doing what you have always done – driving to the problem, taking the initiative, and leading the way.

March 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

How to Break your Funnel

Funnels are a numbers game.  You start at the top where it is wide and get as much high-level interest as you can.  The more the merrier, if it overflows, that’s perfect because the goal is to keep that top of the funnel full. Then it trickles down to the spout, you weed out what doesn’t matter until you get customers coming out the bottom. It’s a weird analogy because if you look at any funnel, as long as you don’t overflow it, everything goes down the funnel – all the water will eventually go down the spout. If you