Articles for category: Drive

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

If Speed is your only Metric, You’ll Fail

Right now, most LinkedIn and Instagram posts focus on how you can get to 10x learning technology Y or how you can deliver 15x using AI this. No one is talking about the customer reception or how much they enjoy using the product. If all your customers can talk about is that you’re fast to get the next release out there and not speak to any of your features, they don’t care about what you’re doing – maybe they’re along for the ride. Speed will get you so far – knowing what you do, understanding your product, creating a customer

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Time Changes

I don’t know if this “Time Change” stuff will ever disappear. We just sprung forward this first week and so far, it’s watching my dog readjust his eating patterns, identifying clocks that don’t change automatically, and wishing for it to be lighter in the morning again, but I know that will come soon. I wonder what would happen if we did something crazy one year and sprang forward 2 years. Why not, if you can do 1, why not do 2 and see where it takes you? It’s just time.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Things will ALWAYS go Sideways

Yes, they will always, always go sideways. I worked at a camp many years ago where we gave out a “Loser of the Week” award – it generally went to the same people each week. Why? Because they worked with all the machinery and all the jobs that had a propensity to go sideways. They weren’t Losers (it was funny), they worked hard and delivered, but when things went sideways, they went sideways. Ignore the perfection, embrace the sideways.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Guess What – Everything is Changing

Okay great. Now that we know that, let’s figure it out. The hardest part about change is acceptance; we get mired in it for a long, long time. And then one day we go ahead and do it, and we realize – “I guess I should have started sooner.” If you accept the change early, you’re already moving faster than many.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Small Team, Big Leaps

Small teams make bigger strides. It’s the problem of team development that we’ve been trying to solve for decades. I think it’s because of focus, they look at a problem, discuss options, and iterate towards a solution. They don’t care about what they don’t or what might not work; they just care about seeing if they can do it. When you get bigger, you think more about what you might impact before diving into fixing the problem. This is why AI scares many. You chat with Claude or ChatGPT, one view into solving a problem, and they just go, they