Articles for category: Initiative

April 10, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Chief Innovator

What’s in a title? When I started my first company years ago, this was my title – I received lots of weird stares and comments… What does it mean? What are you really the chief of? Do we really call you that? And the list went on… Fast forward to today, and you can go look on LinkedIn and see this title used a number of places. Does it mean I was ahead of my time, light years into the future as to where job titles were going? No, not really, it only reinforces that it doesn’t matter what your

April 3, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Anatomy of a Startup

Think of an idea (don’t get caught up in the greatness or market potential of the idea) Implement the Idea (create a prototype, experiment to see if it can work, try, try again) Find a Market (either through Social Media, your neighbours, family, and friend) Sell It (maybe for monetary value or via barter) Do it all over again (because that’s what you do) It’s that simple, don’t get caught up in the hype or the what-ifs, start small and find passion and drive in what you have created. Everything else will fall into place and if it doesn’t – Do it

March 31, 2017

Greg Thomas

How to Take More Initiative in your Life

It’s really not that complicated, it’s simply our commitment to take more initiative that matters. I love these opportunities to delve into a topic that I would probably not come up with on my own, here are the results here. How to Take More Initiative in your Life

March 21, 2017

Greg Thomas

Long-Term Failure Planning

  Planning for the long-term isn’t always about minimizing risks and making sure you’re covered for a rainy day. It’s also about planning and insulating for failure. Planning for the experiments that might go awry. Planning for pivots to new ideas that might not work out the first time through. Planning for creating something with a small reward but took big time. It’s about giving yourself time to try something new, fail and try again.  When we don’t give ourselves time to do this, we stop getting better, stop learning from our mistakes and stop improving. Plan for Failure and Hold