Articles for category: Leadership

December 21, 2016

Greg Thomas

What do you Prioritize by?

We all set our priorities in different ways… Working on the low hanging fruit. Doing what’s easy. Doing what the customer wants. Doing what costs less. Doing what costs more. Making it look nice. Making it functional. Taking on a challenge. We all prioritize our efforts in different ways – the key is to understanding the differences in how you prioritize, how your team prioritizes and how your organization prioritizes and discovering how to align each one (sometimes by mere communication and understanding) so when everyone sets out to work – everyone is clear in how we are completing our work.

December 19, 2016

Greg Thomas

The F1 Pitstop

I don’t generally watch racing, but in a restaurant the other weekend it was on. The racing was fine, but the Pitstops where the best part, hands down. If you ever want to see a team that is synchronized, both physically and mentally, working towards a common goal and vision, you need look no further. When working as one, towards a common goal, they are able to pivot (literally) to implement changes in seconds instead of minutes. The best part? The guy who stands in front of the car as it comes careening into the pit, not looking agitated but calmly

December 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

What’s your Hook?

Video games do this very well – they show you what you can achieve if you keep playing, 3 or 4 levels down the line from where you currently are. Forget the time investment to get there – they give you a taste of what extra goodies you can get. They hook you before you are even there. When listening to speakers or presenters that you really like – what is there hook? You won’t see it immediately, you might need to watch a few times, but when you see it, you’ll see it was early on in their presentation.

December 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

Break out of your Comfort Zone

I am convinced that the moment when we start to grow by leaps and bounds is the moment when we are thrown out of our comfort zone. When we are presented with a new challenge that we never saw coming our way that excites and scares us at the same time. When the level of effort is unknown because it is something so new that it cannot. When we don’t know what to do, what direction to go in or where to be. When all the around the room no one puts their hand up except for you? Those are

December 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

Barriers to Success

You know what is holding you in. You know what is holding you back. You know you are bigger than this box that you are playing in. You know you are ready to achieve and deliver in ways you only dream of now. So if you know all this, what are you doing to do to tear those barriers down and become the success you know you can be?