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April 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

When Starting Something , Ask yourself…

Whether it is your own idea or someone else’s – ask yourself these questions; What kind of thing (group, company, initiative) do you want this to be?  Will you lead it?  What will it take? What will be be your competitive advantage?  Love this article by Seth Godin. What do you want this idea to be known for?  Great quality, low cost, fast turnaround, etc. What do you care about most in furthering this idea?  What is driving you to make this happen. How will you get people to buy-in and support you?  Don’t say you don’t need anyone or anything,

April 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

I Spent the Day Creating

Last week I spent a full day from 8am – 8pm coding – debugging, building, breaking, creating. And it was fantastic – I took a small break for lunch, had no meetings and the rest of the time I spent it reading blogs, writing code, debugging, working through problems, trying to find solutions. Was I in the “zone”? I wasn’t killing it, but I was hustling and driven to create something. Did I learn a lot? You bet, there is nothing as invigorating as learning something new and stumbling through it.  No matter what you end up with at the end of

April 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

Free Dreams – Today Only

There will be many great, memorable April Fools jokes today. But what if instead of doing it as a joke you did it as an offering. Free consultations on software problems. Free product demos. Free questions without a quote required today. Free technical support on nagging issues. Free developer support day. Maybe April Fools doesn’t have to be about the joke, but instead about doing something that you normally wouldn’t do.  What if you made it into something about your organization that your customers looked forward to each and every year?  What if you turned the table on the concept

March 31, 2016

Greg Thomas

Exercise Your Brain

You know that feeling you get after you haven’t worked out for awhile and your whole body is aching because it’s all like – “hey this is above and beyond our normal routine of getting up, going to work, sitting down, going home, watching something and going to bed” – routine. And maybe that is something you are doing some other activities during the day too – but you know the day I’m talking about – where you wakeup and go for the run in the morning and feel it the rest of the day kind of day. Yeah –

March 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Detractor

The Detractor isn’t a bad person to have on your team, they aren’t malicious per se, but they are 100% – a Distraction – where their main goal is to detract you from your goal. The Detractor has their own goals in mind, they are working towards something else that is separate from what the rest of the team is focussed on.  Towards the end of each meeting, when everyone has said their piece and is clear on the next step for the project they come back with – “one last thing” – that doesn’t align with the path of