Articles for category: Initiative

What Can You Control?

Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.

January 31, 2024

Greg Thomas

Speak Softly

And carry a pen? Type on a keyboard? Be the first one there? Be the last one out? Wait till the end to ask questions. Whatever it is, just go softly, just be there, and let your actions dictate what sometimes becomes your words. Everything else will fall into place from there.

January 28, 2024

Greg Thomas

Creative Systems

Systems get a bad rap when all we follow is the system – do it this way or else. A collection of systems (and the freedom to add more) creates a toolbox where it’s left up to the user to decide which system they should use and when. This ensures creativity and growth are still being applied in implementing and developing new systems BUT also that what has been proven to work is still being implemented (i.e., we’re not reinventing the world each time.

January 25, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s your Remote Strategy?

Is it 4 days a week? Does everyone have to follow it? Can you opt-out (or in)? What happens when things go sideways? Do you have the technology to support it? How do you make it work? Have you asked yourself any of these questions or more?  It’s probably the first place you want to start before dictating.

January 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

Stay the Course

It’s not easy having to stay on the course when everyone around you is jumping ship for something easier. Something less uphill, less fight, less battle. It’s easy to move to a different course to avoid those battles. But staying the course, that’s where the magic happens, that’s where things get good, better than you ever thought, if you just stay the course.