Articles for category: Initiative

January 8, 2016

Greg Thomas

Writing Presentations with SADLDP

I never thought I’d use Powerpoint as much as I do today and/or give as many presentations as I do (not one of my career goals when I was younger) but I do enjoy it now. Lately I’ve come to think of the formula that I use when putting together a presentation as I seek to improve on how I create them. Story.  What’s the Story?  This is key, no matter the content, what story am I trying to tell, what message do I want people to leave with, what takeaways or call to actions do I want them to have

January 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Hybrid Strategy

When thinking about moving to the cloud it’s very often portrayed as one or the other – Cloud or On-Premise. And this is wrong.  There is a third market which has existed for some time that organizations may find themselves in for an extended period of time as they trial, test and validate before going from on-premise to the cloud. The Hybrid. The Hybrid is the world where some of your organization exists on-premise and some in the cloud.  It might not be a direct break between organizations or people, it could be a segregation of applications or channels of communication – asynchronous in

January 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

No Goal is Too Small

I like the process of making resolutions, keeping them, infinitely harder. Some I am on track for keeping, some I am not. Others I have written down because they are really important to me, others I have not (and by way of not doing so, I know they are not really that important to me). One thing to remember is that it doesn’t matter the scale or size of your goal when you inevitably compare it with others. Case in point – I read Mark Zuckerberg’s 2016 Resolution for this year earlier this week. Whoa. My big maker goal is

January 3, 2016

Greg Thomas

Trust the Process PostScript

Tip of the hat to the altMBA, my own PostScript after having written this morning’s prompt, er post. So what happens when you cannot trust the process and by the process I mean the people? Then you decide which path you need to go down – the path to find a new process that you can start fresh with and start trusting OR the process by which you stick with it and you commit to making something happen.  Notice the “you”, you commit to making something happen, you come up with the action plan, you make the effort and you judge

January 3, 2016

Greg Thomas

Trust the Process

There are times in life where you have to trust without knowing the end result.  Trust that the people leading you have only your best interests at heart.  That is very easy when you know all the twist and turns you are going to take to get from A to B and the road is laid out in front of you so you can see all the speed bumps ahead of you. Not so easy, when you are starting at A, cannot see the road for all the fog and are not sure whether B is even out there. I