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August 18, 2016

Greg Thomas

When you need a Mentor

Instead of seeking out a relationship where you are the mentee and someone else is the mentor.  Someone who has been put on a pedestal as being unbelievably innovative, creative and execution driven. Seek out a co-mentor – someone you can give as much to as they can give to you – so not only do you grow, but they do as well. And better yet, find someone from a completely different walk of life and field of interest.  It’s the different perspectives that give us the ideas for what and how we can modify our problem-solving behaviours. And don’t

August 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

Building Tenets of your Organization

When I started my second company, even though it was just me, I thought it important to develop a set of guiding principles that I wanted the company to be known more.  The thought was what better time when it was just me to start writing these down. I was probably avoiding having to write and test more software but it was a fun exercise to see what I wanted it to be.  It doesn’t need to be a complicated exercise that takes an insurmountable time, but when done early, on paper, all of a sudden you have something to throw up

August 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

How I feel when I finish a Project

Without a doubt, this is how I feel at the end of every project, big or small when every last detail I’ve wanted to complete is now done and working as I hoped.  The guy in the red hood that’s the inner voice telling you it’s good enough, but you know it’s not, you know there is something still left to do, left to give to make it complete in your heart. The girl at the end, that’s the next project coming around the corner that I’m dying to start.

August 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Unofficial Learning Curve

When learning a new skill you might find the progression goes something like… Start Me Up Everything is going well, you are learning something new, you feel great, you’re leaping further than you ever had before, nothing is going to be able to stop you.  There is an added excitement because perhaps you’ve had to purchase some new “things” to get going on it so you feel even more like a pro at what you are doing. I Got This You are now gliding through the basic learning paths and tutorials, make hay of anything that comes your way.  Not

August 12, 2016

Greg Thomas

Creating Culture

Creating Culture isn’t a difficult task… Start with one person, do things a certain way. Grow to two people and tweak. Keep growing, each time tweaking your interactions with yourself, your team and your customer – keeping true to what you’ve identified as the internal tenants for your culture. As more people are brought on, the questions on culture start to come into play more and more during the interview process as you start to realize those tenants are the yardstick by which you want to be judged. Keep rinsing and keep repeating. That’s how you create a culture, perhaps