Articles for category: Leadership

July 10, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Coaching Toolbox

Whether it’s professional, recreational or personal we are all at some point in our lives coaches to other, helping those that work with us, look up to us or perhaps have even paid for our services – we are coaches – formal or informal. As coaches, we have the experience, we have the knowledge, we have the game play all wrapped up in our head.  We know the stats, we know what has worked and we know the drills. This is our toolbox. Our job is to share the tools within the toolbox so the people we are coaching can

July 5, 2015

Greg Thomas

Inventing is the sincerest form of flattery

It’s easy to see what someone is doing, take what has worked well, copy it and try to reproduce that success.  But it’s not going to happen. Why? Because you have no idea what went into making it a success in the first part – none whatsoever.  You don’t know about the long nights and early mornings or the back and forth pacing or the countless ideas that came before it, you just know about the one.  We can all see when you copy, especially if you work in the same company, building or pod.  You took something red, you

July 4, 2015

Greg Thomas

Invest in yourself

Something I’ve been wanting to blog about for awhile is in the investment you place in yourself. Bad news – not everything is free, despite all the freemium tools out there, you could find something for everything, but eventually you’d run into limits and problems and start getting all – “well I can only do 5 posts of these a week because then I hit my cap” – really?  That is what is going to limit your potential genius being released is a cap on a tool that is for free? And aren’t you worth the investment? So, like anything, I

June 14, 2015

Greg Thomas

The hardest part is the Pitch

This week, I start on a crazy journey to try to ship and deliver and manage than I have normally ever done.  To get ready for this adventure, I’ve had to read a lot of blogs and books (still reading the books so I’m not all the way there) but the theme, the one theme is always the same and pardon the baseball term but I’ll put my own spin on it. Turn on the TV, go to the game, watch a Pitcher take the mound and get ready to throw the ball at 97mph at the batter.  They spend

May 27, 2015

Greg Thomas

All things being equal…

is a horrible statement, because ALL things are never equal and will NEVER be equal. When you say this, you are effectively watering down your argument for whatever solution you might be proposing by acknowledging that  your solution can only ever be evaluated against the current solution (or another proposal) and conditions where all things are equal. But in life – nothing is EVER equal.  We all know it – this is nothing new.  And I will tell you right now, I don’t want the solution that must be equal, I want something that is greater than equal.  You want

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