Articles for category: Leadership

March 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Detractor

The Detractor isn’t a bad person to have on your team, they aren’t malicious per se, but they are 100% – a Distraction – where their main goal is to detract you from your goal. The Detractor has their own goals in mind, they are working towards something else that is separate from what the rest of the team is focussed on.  Towards the end of each meeting, when everyone has said their piece and is clear on the next step for the project they come back with – “one last thing” – that doesn’t align with the path of

March 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

Game Day

Break down the effort… Practice 3 times a week for the last 6 months. Close to 48+ hours of driving to and from tournaments. Playing in 30+ games. Who knows how many ice packs, bruises and strained muscles. Hours spent learning plays upon plays upon plays. All that effort, over the course of 6 months to qualify, to reach one set of games which will separate you from the rest of the pack.  One Tournament to rule them all (as they might say), one last chance to put the naysayers to rest and win something that very few do. Remember all

March 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

Renegade By Design

Renegade – traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter. Wow – much worse synonyms then I had originally thought when I started thinking about this, but alas there it is. I read those four words and I immediately think about the impact towards people of taking those actions but in thinking it up saw it as something completely different… Those who constantly break the status quo in search of something better (The Betrayer)? Those that can’t let the argument of “this is how it’s always been” stand without trying to find something different (The Dissenter) Those that choose to walk away from a

March 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Recipe For Instant Culture

Take 3 parts great people. Take 1 ounce of luck. Take 2 cups of awesome product. Add 1 tablespoon of secret sauce. And poof – Instant Culture Not quite. It’d be great if we could all have that super awesome culture of “Awesome Company Du Jour” – even when it changes to a completely different company, we’d simply switch over to that new brand of company. Yeah that’d be awesome – that’d work – except it won’t. Talk to all these people and they’ll all tell you the same thing – it evolved, it started with a few and grew from there,

March 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Messages We Send

How many times have you been a meeting with someone to have them take your words and regurgitate them back into a message that is completely off topic from your original idea? Once a Month? Once a Week? Once a Day? When you look at those missed interactions, how often is it the same person or group of people? How about when the message is targeted at people you know vs those you don’t? What is your medium you are using to create the message?  Email, Text, Whitepaper, etc? In all these scenarios, on a constant basis, we are engaged

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