Articles for category: Initiative

March 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

Branding Myself

I read this awhile ago on someone’s twitter account and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The person changed his handle to be something else (i.e., not his name) and his response to a question was – “I’m Branding myself to be this”. That used to be called “changing your attitude”, “getting a new perspective”, “redirecting your focus”, “finding a new path” but now it’s called “re-branding yourself”. Which is 100% Ad speak for – how can I make money off a slick name and showcasing myself to the world as something I’m always not while developing

March 21, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Wanna Do List

This is the list of everything we have in life that we want to do. We want to accomplish. We wish we could get done on time. If we were able to do everything, we’d be a huge success. If people read more of our work we could then do these things. The Wanna Do List is where our hopes and dreams live, where in a perfect world we would get it all done, no distractions, no mistakes, no worries, no problems. The Wanna Do List is also the worst list to have because what lists are Tactical, they are

March 20, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Detractors

They aren’t there to help you. They exist to take away value from what you are creating. They come in many forms (too many to list). Really they should be called “Distractors” because their goal is to get under your skin and shift your focus from what you are doing to anything else. Anything that stops you from generating value, breaking down walls and disrupting the norm. They are hard to spot, but we all have them. And the only way to stop them is to keep doing what you’re doing because what you’re doing is the path to change

March 19, 2019

Greg Thomas

Tear Down and Rebuild

If doing it yourself, demo is easy – grab a hammer, make some noise, destroy, destroy, destroy – done. The aftermath of tearing things down, of looking around and seeing what has “become” of things and where to start next is where the real work starts. The key to remember in any Tear Down and Rebuild project or product is that if you only have 8 months to deliver and you spend 6 months tearing down, can you really rebuild in 2 months? Same with leadership, if you want to right the course of your team and spend 8 months

March 18, 2019

Greg Thomas

Where did you go SlideShare?

I used to go to SlideShare all the time to learn about anything. I enjoyed the long-form storytelling that intermixed graphics, presentation and content. It was better than reading a blog because you were able to see the evolution of an idea. I used the past tense because I recently read a number of articles on how the site is dead, it’s user base has dropped and it’s not generating the value it used to. Which is too bad, because there is some incredible content on that site. But one screenshot, taken today, sums up where they are at perfectly.

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