Articles for category: Initiative

July 13, 2023

Greg Thomas

Assembling the Team

The first task in any new project you lead is assembling the team. You need a group that will deliver, try new ideas, keep the focus on what is important, grind it out when the chips are down, work at a steady pace from beginning to end, learn new skills, and discard old ones. And above all else, you need leaders, for whatever you are doing, you won’t be able to make all the decisions all the time and you need to make sure your team is able to empower themselves and each other to make those decisions. And wherever

July 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Minimalist Growth

There are programs that require you to get experience before you can proceed to the next level. It’s not about slowing you down (which we often think), it’s about applying what you have learned and, hopefully, questioning it, trying out what does and doesn’t work before taking the next step. Growth does not happen all at once, you might be able to cram a 17-hour course into one day, but are you better off doing it that way, or if you did it over the course of a few weeks, putting into effect what you had learned? Learning in pieces,

July 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

Summer Learning

Find a book. Start that course from Udemy you purchased six months ago. Learn a new skill. Run a little farther. No one is saying you need to master the subject, no one is saying you need to become an expert or invest 4 hours a day. Catch up on that seminar you might have missed. Most of all, Summer Learning should be about things you want to learn, not stuff that other people want you to learn, that’s why it’s way easier to do, and more enjoyable. And that’s what the summer is for.

July 8, 2023

Greg Thomas

What is your Overload?

We each have our own limit. Where we get to the end and then we go into overload. The key part is to ensure that we don’t go beyond that, that we operate at it or below it. We also know when it’s coming and to take on more, is asking for it to happen. The worst time to worry about Overload, is when you’re already overloaded, it’s too late, you have no bandwidth. The best time, is before it happens, way before it happens, when you are so far away from it that it can’t happen.  That’s the best

July 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Leadership By Email

Over the last two years, we led by Zoom or Email because we had to, it was the best we had to offer. But today we don’t have to, these are tools that you can use, but they are not a magical multipurpose tool that does it all. Leading my email might get your message across very clearly and concisely, but you’ll always need to follow-up to make sure everyone “gets” what you mean. Don’t let email become the only way you lead.

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