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May 5, 2017

Greg Thomas

How to play the Blame Game

The initiation of the Blame Game starts with a lack of trust between you and someone else where both are not willing to accept that the other could make a mistake and both are intent on capitalizing on that mistake for their own purposes. But it doesn’t need to be that way and instead can, and should be built, on the mutual understanding that only together can the best outcome be achieved. As an example… You: That didn’t work how I had intended. Them: Yeah, we should figure out a way to make it better next time. You: Got Time? Them:

May 4, 2017

Greg Thomas

The New Corporate Headquarters

Between the time when I was on my own and now where I am on my own again was about the span of a little over two years. With my first company -I had servers everywhere, network equipment, firewalls, managing patches and software upgrades, performing much of this work myself, begging for help from friends where I needed it and always worrying that someday everything would break (and some days it did, horribly). Fast forward two years to my new company – I run everything from the cloud, the majority of which I can access from my phone.  The company goes where

May 3, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Accidental Exit

I once hired someone to work with me on a few projects but we never had the chance to actually, side-by-side work together during our tenure together. They left before that could happen – I called it the Accidental Exit. Sure we talked, discussed progress on projects and we might have been on the same project but in varying different roles, but we were never in the trenches together for a project. When they left they told me their one disappointment was this lost opportunity on never really working together – being in the trenches together, slogging through the problems.

May 2, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Freelance Network Hustle

Freelancing is a different beast than consulting and contracting when it comes to sales. Whereas in consulting and contracting you might have another company in front of you selling your wares and services, when you’re freelancing, it’s all on you. As a Freelancer, you need to network, you need to hustle, you need to focus your pitch and you need to practice it with anyone that will listen. You also need to get over the fact that you will deliver bad pitches, that your message will be off point in the beginning and that it might take longer than you

May 1, 2017

Greg Thomas

Failure To Notice

You are going to screw up, something is going to go wrong, what you are trying to accomplish will not work. You will fail. But worse than your failure, will be your inability to see that you have failed, to take the opportunity to learn from it and make yourself better next time. Celebrating failure is great, it signifies effort, endurance and commitment to keep trying. Not learning from failure ensures that you will inevitably fail once again, in the same fashion, over and over again. Take the time to do more than celebrate your failure, take the time to