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11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Establishment of a Partnership

I buy your product, and you get my money. We have a partnership, and we are working together. If I don’t like your product, ranting and raving about it, but it never comes to you, that does nothing for our partnership. If I’m using your product incorrectly, that doesn’t mean you have a bad product, that means we have a disconnect, and if not talked about, does nothing for our partnership. There is always a partnership in everything we do, but if we never talk about how to make it better or figure it out, we’ll never have the opportunity

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Real-Time News Cycle

I remember being glued to this tracker for days and weeks 5 years ago.  It was like watching a slow moving train in action sweeping from country to country. Although informative, it did nothing for my well-being.  I write this at a time when real-time news cycles have the potential to derail our days completely with little disregard for how it affects us.  We seem to have gone back to that era where a firehose was being shot at us, and we were trying to find the needle of good within it. Sometimes the only option is lower the pressure

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Your Next Career Rank

Video Games are great for putting your rank out there – where you’re at and what you need to get to the next level. We’ve gamified everything over the years to provide that same experience as to what you can expect when you get to the next level. Applying a gamification rating to your career has been tricky though, primarily because career development is a non-linear path and the only person to measure the rank would be you (unless you stay in one company your entire life). So if the determining factor of rank is you, then the question becomes,

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Move Never Goes Right

No matter how well you plan, moving from one place to the other, is never perfect and is always chaotic. Even moving from one room to another, something will fail – a wire will get tweaked, something that stood perfectly for years now falls over, and worst, something might break. You get to the place, and despite all of your best labeling, you have no idea where anything is and all you want to do is order a pizza and stare at the big pile in front of you. Order the pizza; don’t debate it; order it, have it delivered,

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Birth of a Mentor

You don’t train to become a mentor before it happens, it just happens. All the mentors I’ve had, they never took any courses to become a mentor, it just happened. People saw them doing their work and thought “I could learn a lot from them” and then they want to learning from them. Mentors aren’t born in the proverbial sense.  The first time someone asks them for advice, guidance, and suggestions – they are what happens next is showing up each day thereafter and hoping their guidance gets passed on to the Mentee.