Articles for category: Initiative

January 11, 2024

Greg Thomas

Rework Remote Work

Remote work was easy when everyone was forced to be remote. We all had to do it, might as well figure it out. Now we’re not being forced to do it. Like anything when you’re not forced to do it, your desire to do it wanes, you pull back, you relax, you’re not at your most interested. What we did for those few years as Remote Workers, worked for that scenario, but those parameters don’t apply anymore, so now we need to come up with a new set of parameters. A new context to working, engaging, and keeping people involved

January 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Meetings Lack Ambition

If your meeting is set up to simply “be there” and “discuss things”, your meeting will never amount to much. Meetings should have purpose, direction, creativity, and perseverance that roll themselves up into the ambition of what is trying to be achieved. You would code through the night to get your product out the door. You would work late into the evening to get the competitive analysis done before deciding what features to implement. You would grind out test cases to ensure the best quality product. Your meetings should have the same ambition that you do.

January 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Learn the Problem

We don’t know the problem until we know what it is. Everything up until that point is learning what the problem is.  The faster you learn the problem, the sooner you know what to do with it. Everything else is noise, focus on the problem, plan the solution.

January 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Finding the Plot

We go onto wikipedia to find the plot of a movie we didn’t want to watch the rest of or a book we didn’t want to finish. We have that innate urge to know what happened because as we sat there reading or watching, we couldn’t figure it out. The same goes for your team, if you can’t find the plot, if you can’t direct it, if you can’t call it out – all your team is doing each day, is trying to figure out what it is, wondering why they are there, and what they should be focused next

January 3, 2024

Greg Thomas

Same Trends, Same Result

Someone makes a cool video and everyone jumps on. It becomes a trend and everyone starts to do it because they get views – the trend becomes bigger but then becomes stale as innovation drops.  Now it’s just someone else doing the same thing they’ve seen a thousand (or more times). No one wants to do the same thing over and over again in life, but it exists for views (the exact opposite of why we would not want to do it in our daily life). So are we going to keep doing the same thing, hoping for a different

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