Articles for category: Delivery

February 1, 2024

Greg Thomas

Tabs in Space

I was watching a lot of clips from Apollo 13 for a bit and one thing that kept striking me – their focus. I look at my desktop and sometimes see all the tabs of random thoughts occurring as I look at issues and problems and I think – “there is no way I could be in space, I’d have all these tabs and binders open just trying to figure out what to do.” Probably why they still have binders in space.

January 30, 2024

Greg Thomas

Meetings By Need

You only need to have meetings when a need arises. Anything else is put aside for IF a need arises that instead becomes a discussion on what people are up to and not really discussing a need per se.

January 27, 2024

Greg Thomas

Wipe your Calendar

Take everything off, decline everything. Whoever comes back asking for you to be at the meeting, add those ones back in. Everything else leave out.

January 21, 2024

Greg Thomas

A Guideline, a Policy or a Rule

A Guideline is a set of suggestions for how you should approach solving a Problem. A Policy is a set of directives for how you must approach solving a problem. A Rule is a standard you must uphold when solving a problem. We say things are policies or rules but mostly they are guidelines if we dig deep and we have how more freedom then we think in how to approach solving a problem.

January 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Reading the Instructions

How many times do you open the package and throw out the instructions? I do all the time. But someone worked on them because they knew I was going to do things wrong right out of the gate. The ones I do read, they aren’t written in 6px fonts and folded over 17 times.  It’s akin to the person with the headache trying to understand the dosage they need to take.  They aren’t looking for their glasses, extra light and a magnifying glass – they want to know how many every hour. 2 P E 6 H – 2 Pills