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10 months ago

Greg Thomas

There was Never Enough

Never enough time, resources, money, opportunities, customers, people, etc. There has never been enough, and there never will be. Pick your “thing” you don’t have enough of, it shifts over the course of your career – opportunities, money, earnings, customers – there will never be enough. Knowing there will never be enough, would you change your strategy? Would you take a different approach to what you want to achieve? Would you do something completely different? Or do you have enough, but just aren’t using it in the right way? What is your enough?

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Going Up Against the Best

When you go up against the best, you are more than likely going to fall down, trip up, or make a mistake. After all, they are the best, and you are not, so they know how to do everything and anything to stop you in your tracks. But the more you go up against them, the better you will become, the smarter you will get, you will start to see patterns emerge, and you will add them to your toolbox. Eventually, the falling down and trip ups will minimize and you’ll start to hold you own, possibly even surpassing them.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

Giving out the Options

Picking the solution is the easy part, it’s the options that take time. The analysis, the evaluations, the comparison, and narrowing down to the most applicable is the most important work that happens before you give out the options. It’s not easy work, but when presented to those who need to pick a solution, it greatly simplifies their lives and makes moving forward that much easier. When the option analysis is convoluted, messy, incomplete, or stretches out anything and everything, the selection of the solution becomes problematic and generally stagnates as confusion sets in. Giving out the Options, is the

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Don’t Get From Conferences

Conferences are not training. You can travel and go to a training course where they deep dive you on a topic for one week.  Maybe you are there with a colleague or two, but you are not there with thousands of people, all in one class, all learning a topic and struggling through labs. This is good because struggling to do a lab with a thousand people would be daunting on a good day. Conferences are many things (as already gone through) but they are not training, they are learning. Different audiences, different topics, different opportunities, don’t sign up for

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

What You Get from Conferences

Conferences are a great opportunity to connect with past and former, colleagues, meet new people, and get an overview of new topics. There are some conference that will deep dive on 2 – 3 core topics but generally, they are a firehose of information coming your way. The locale is different and a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues, pick everyone’s brain without work surrounding you, and just overall learn about what does and doesn’t work in the team and what you can do moving forward. I haven’t been to a conference in a long time, but these are