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February 2, 2017

Greg Thomas

Receiving Feedback

There are some great posts here on how to give feedback to people; How to Give Feedback I don’t care enough to give Constructive Feedback And as much as it probably pains you to sometimes do, the Giving is the easy part. The hard part – receiving it, processing it, moving forward with it – that is where we all struggle. If you really, really, really want to take feedback then you need to be able to receive it. Receiving feedback takes three parts; Being Thankful – yes, thankful.  Someone(s) just took time out of their schedule to sit down

February 1, 2017

Greg Thomas

Your Metrics for Success

We all have our own definitions of success – what it is, where we want to go, how we want to get there? Boiled down – what is important to you to define yourself as successful? Is it the journey? Is it the ends justifying the means? Is it learning X before Y? Is it based on milestones in a certain amount of time? Is it learning a new language? Is it speaking at conferences for something you love? Is it delivering a product that one person uses? Is it making people smile and laugh? Is it creating a connection

January 31, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Connected Team

The Connected Team isn’t the one with the latest tools that sync from phone to tablet to laptop in seconds. They aren’t the team that’s delivering on all of their sprints in rapid succession. They aren’t the team that sits side-by-side having lunch with each other each and every day of the week. These are all good things. But the Connected Team is the team that picks up where one leaves off, that understands the meaning of a message either within or without of the proper context. The Connected Team isn’t built overnight, it’s built over months and years through

January 30, 2017

Greg Thomas

Recipe for Startup Passion Juice

Very easy to make… Take one part knowledge. Two parts will. Four parts ability to grind. Three parts desire to fail and try, fail and try, fail and try again. One part Entrepreneurial know-how (adds some flavour, but okay if you don’t have to start) Seven parts positive outlook. Six parts humble pie. Mix together in a haphazard fashion, drink from a monster cup which is promptly slammed on the table when emptied dry and welcome to a new day. Passion isn’t a thing you learn or get or find – it’s something you do and find by never giving

January 27, 2017

Greg Thomas

Something new to Learn

What if you know something hard to learn that your friend doesn’t know. What if your friend knows something hard to learn that you don’t know. And you both stared at each other in awe of the other person’s skill thinking “that is too hard I could never do that”. “I’ll never get the training amount approved.” “It’s not on my career path, no use trying something new.” “I haven’t done anything with that in years, it’d take way too long to get going”. Or, maybe you could reach out, ask for a starting point and each moment, day after