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November 22, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Leader’s Edge

Being a Leader is a tricky endeavour, there are many, many, many books, blogs and articles on the topic. There are more approaches than coding languages. (Not verified by evidence but probably true). But there’s one thing we all forget to do as a Leader from time to time and that is to remember that you are only human and if you want your team to be open, honest and forthright with you, you need to do the same thing. It’s not an easy thing (easier to say then do). With teams being remote, there is lots of talk about

November 21, 2020

Greg Thomas

Break out

A break out is something you do when you need to get out of a situation you’re in that is not desirable. In sports, it’s generally attributed to taking possession and regrouping your team into an attack. In business, it might be about taking a larger group and breaking it into smaller groups that would be more effective at delivering a task. Whichever definition you want to use, the application is changing your status quo from what it was to something different. This isn’t easy for many to do, who wants to change what we have, when we are so

November 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Lessons You Will Learn

This year, they are not the lessons you set out in your resolutions. They are not the ones you stayed up late at night, excited to accomplish. They are not the ones that will necessarily help in your career path. Indirectly most likely, but not directly. The lessons you learn, will push you harder than you thought possible. They will make you rethink your decisions. They will give you pause. And just when you think you have figured it all out, they will force you to figure it out all again. There are lessons to be learned this year of

November 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Contractor’s Value

The contractor is someone you bring in to do a job you have little or no knowledge in how to accomplish in a timely fashion that you have deemed acceptable. Read that again – you haven’t asked them how long it’s going to take (because you don’t know) but you will give them the timeline they have to work against. Its not the most ideal of circumstances for any person and a new opportunity usually comes with its own level of confusion to start. If you get someone that tells you the hoops and hurdles they will have to go

November 18, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Cue

Not the Trigger. But the Cue. The Cue is different from the trigger. The trigger gets us angry, gets us mad, makes us unfocused and frustrated. It pushes us to places we don’t need to be going to. But the Cue? The cue is our internal notification that we are needed, that it’s time to step up, that someone needs our help, that it’s time to jump in, help and grow the team. Take the cue, ignore the trigger.