Articles for category: Leadership

May 29, 2019

Greg Thomas

What Happened to Career Days?

The days where everyone would show up looking their best, eager to impress whoever was there. They would walk from booth to booth depending on who had the best swag or coolest posters, hand out a resume and walkaway, never to be heard or seen from again. I never hired anyone from a Career Day because it is treated as a “thing” to do, a job where the goal is to hand out as many resumes in possible to ensure that numbers are up and work has been done. I’d hand out tons of business cards, but never receive a

May 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

One-Thousandth Post

That’s how many posts I’ve written since I started this blog – that’s a Milestone. I started it in 2014, in Seattle while eating a burger. At that time I was doing something akin to one blog a week. After attending the first cycle of the altMBA I kicked that up to posting 5 days a week. I don’t write every day, I do use the scheduling function in wordpress to keep me sane and to give me some padding for those busy months when I’m overloaded. (this post might not be THE 1000th post as I do slip in

May 27, 2019

Greg Thomas

Everyone can Lead when it’s Easy

When the economy is going well, whoever is at the wheel gets the praise. When you have a team that is filled with experienced, self-driven resources that deliver on their own, your job is simplified. When you have all the fancy tools and doodads to make yourself a success – it helps. Anyone can lead in these cases (and more) when everything is running well, the car is brand new, there are no issues – nothing can go wrong. In these cases, you’re not leading per se but guiding, staying the course, manning the helm. You’re not having to change

May 23, 2019

Greg Thomas

I Can Do Better

So what are you waiting for? An invitation to tell you that now is the time to start doing better? A roadmap on how you can be better? A skillshare course that walks you through the benefits of being better? If you already know you can do better, you don’t need anything else, you simply need to start doing what you’re saying.

May 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

I Need Help

If you’re a Leader, start saying this, start asking for it. Do it in small batches so you get comfortable with it but keep doing it. It’s not going to be make you look weak. It’ll show what you need from your team is as important as what they need from you. Thinking you need to go it alone, no one is with you, it’s you against the world, is the mentality that leads to failures in leadership and subsequently the teams themselves. The teams that succeed are the ones with a leader that realizes – they can’t do it

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