Articles for category: Initiative

July 11, 2017

Greg Thomas

Find Your Niche

Are you more successful with 10 clients that you have a strong relationship with, understand their industry and can anticipate their needs based on current trends and forecasts? Or are you more successful with 1000 clients that you have an okay relationship with, spread out across multiple industries where you are not an expert in any? That’s the difference between having a niche and having a base – a niche is something that you wake-up and can feel the heartbeat of in every step you take, a base is solid but you need to probe more, ask more questions, spend more

July 10, 2017

Greg Thomas

Don’t Worry About What Could Go Wrong

Or what could go right. Or what could break. Or where your errant shot might go. Or what people will think. Or what it’ll feel like. Or how many followers you’ll get. Or how many likes you’ll get. Or when you’ll be okay with it. Don’t worry about any of it, don’t give any of it the time of the day, just grind through it, push through it – and make it happen.  

July 5, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Different Types of Meetings

The “Technology Fail” Meeting Wait for everyone to connect via their conferencing system choice.  Mute people who are driving through a tunnel that don’t want to mute themselves.  Try to share a screen that gets pixelated or worse you realize you can’t share until the last moment. It ends with everyone saying – “Let’s meet in person next time” – defeating the purpose of everyone being online. The “Yesterday’s Update” Meeting Everyone drops what they are doing to hear everyone say – “I’m working on what I said I’d be working on”. Loved by Managers, despised by Leaders, detrimental to project

July 4, 2017

Greg Thomas

Why does Anger motivate us?

What is it when someone comes down on us for doing a poor job that we become emboldened to prove them wrong? Show them the error of their ways? Work twice as hard to impress that wrote us off as nothing? When we are fighting with a piece of technology and machinery, we can’t give up, we have to keep hammering it, throwing a wrench at it, anything and everything to make it work while we become increasingly more frustrated along the way. All along the way we curse their names underneath our breath while we plod along knowing that

July 3, 2017

Greg Thomas

People are the Foundation to Your Success

It bears repeating, over and over and over and over and over and over again. Your company. Your next project. Your beer league basketball team. Your whatever it is that you are trying to accomplish with whoever you are trying to accomplish it with. Whether you are a team of 2, 20 or 200 – the key to your success will always be the same – people. Start there and make sure everyone knows it, repeat it before your status meetings, remind yourself of it when something goes wrong. People are the foundation to your success – it has always been,