Articles for category: Delivery

January 28, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Playlist

I have a lot of songs on my phone – too many songs – an insane number – but probably not close to what some people have. Still, it’s a lot. And the more you have, the more the shuffle and random feature never quite hits your mood. And every time I drive I think the same thing – “I need to make some playlists, I need to get organized, I need to get tuned in to what I’m doing.” And then I don’t because the one thing we don’t do is sit down with our phones and organize them.

January 25, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Startup

How many people make a startup?  1?  2? How many ideas do you need to have? Do you need to start with something, anything, and just get going? Do you need funding to support those you work with? Do you need to pay yourself? What are all these things and how do they contribute to what you are doing? The beauty of startups, unlike many other fields, is that they can take any form you want, any direction you want, and any course you plot. It’s all up to you how you do it, either path (and there are many)

January 23, 2025

Greg Thomas

Your Sounding Board

A Sounding Board is someone you can bounce ideas off of. Someone you can get some advice from when what is in your head doesn’t sound right (or even if it sounds right to confirm what you are thinking). Whether it’s a project, a company, a joint venture – everyone needs a sounding board. With so much work being done remotely, we’ve lost what used to be our ad-hoc sounding boards – running ideas by teammates and suggesting new approaches to new businesses- so it might not feel like you have that sounding board anymore. You do, you just need

January 14, 2025

Greg Thomas

Weather Changes

Changes in weather, significant changes, can drastically affect the course of your day. A little rain here, some sunshine there, a bit of snow – they are all okay in proportion to what you are currently working through. But a 50cm dump you had no idea was coming your way? Plus 45C heat? That is significant, that changes things, that throws all your plans out the window, and forces you to create and find new ones. We all know the weather can change our plans because it’s “there” and we all know about it. What’s the weather in your organization

January 10, 2025

Greg Thomas

But when does the Pilot End?

This is the big question, when does the pilot end? Is it going on forever (i.e., the Beta program that lasts 2 years)? Does it end after 3 months? When does it become the “now normal” and not the hanger-on of ideas? What defines its success? What metrics matter? If you’re asking these questions while you are in the pilot, while you are doing the work, while it is happening, you are asking them at the wrong time.  These are the questions that need to be answered BEFORE the pilot starts, BEFORE anything happens so that when you get to

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