Articles for category: Leadership

July 21, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Ask vs The Tell

Whether your in a position of authority or leadership or simply the gal whose been assigned to get a task done where whatever little bit of authority you have could be gone tomorrow when you move onto the next project the question is always the same – should I ask or should I tell? One could argue that the end “task completion” result will always be higher when you tell someone what to do, after all you’ve told them to “do it”, the result will be that they “did it”. On the other hand, when you ask for help or ask

July 16, 2015

Greg Thomas

On Travelling and Customs

Many airlines now push for us to use our phone for check-in and use as little paper as possible.  Even hotel and car bookings can all be done electronically – give them your email address – get your booking information, time and date and pickup, how long you are staying, is there a pool in the hotel, etc, etc, etc. All this push to do everything electronically.   Sometimes I am not the person booking my own travel, if we travel in a group someone is nominated to get us a group rate or if it’s bundled with a conference,

July 15, 2015

Greg Thomas

altMBA – It’s Shipping Time

Thirty-One days ago I joined the altMBA class and today it ends.  It started off with a bang and end with a loud KABOOM! Every week I felt like this gif of Kermit, typing furiously to ship once, twice and keep on shipping, day in and day out.  On top of that, I worked to keep up with all the reading on my plate as well as reading and contributing to others.  I’m not going to lie, it was a lot of work, a lot of great work, and it was so worth it.  I have met some incredible people and

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

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