Articles for category: Initiative

March 17, 2019

Greg Thomas

Turning the Tide

Changing what a team is working on is easy. Changing what a team is feeling, where they have come from, getting them to unlearn bad habits, rebuilding them, exposing them to new opportunities is not. That’s the tide that you’re up against when you are tasked with implementing change across your team. That’s the work that needs to be done to implement real change. What they are working on, the projects and/or products are meaningless to change. They are effects that will be yielded based on how the changes in the Tide are implemented. This is key because many times,

March 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

I Had an Idea

But did nothing with it. So that’s all it ever remained, was an Idea., Until someone else did it and then it became a product, a story, a book that you had but never executed on. So instead of an idea it became a plan that worked. But as you lament your idea that had a 100% success rate, what you didn’t see, were how many iterations and ideas that person went through to implement your idea. It’s not the idea that was the success, it was all the previous attempts that made it a success.

March 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Do Something that No one will Notice

Not on Facebook. Not on Instagram. Not on LinkedIn. Not anywhere. Do something, that no one will notice except for you. A change that you will put into effect today, that will ripple out in a few months to something bigger, more pronounced when one day everyone will stand up and go – “When did you do that?”. Even then don’t tell them, because you’re only getting started.

March 12, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Mass Email Blast

This is dead. When I haven’t interacted with your site for over X years (take your pick). Or haven’t received an email to ask if I still want to be receiving these emails. Or can’t remember why I signed up. Or was signed up because you had my email. Your email is redirected right to SPAM. Your message goes right to the trash. All your brilliant ideas and well-intentioned thoughts will no longer be listened to because you were hoping for 10% of that mass distribution to respond when you could have received 100% of a response with a focused

March 11, 2019

Greg Thomas

You Might Have Better Luck

I had to go return something that I purchased from a store that I didn’t have the receipt for, which had been opened. It was from a very large department store, with stores everywhere around the world. It didn’t go well. The point where the discussion went off the rails was when the person I was working with went to get their manager and this was the final dialogue. Manager: So what are we doing here? Me: Oh, I’m waiting for the person I was working with to come back? Manager: Oh, he’s not coming back, you can talk to

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