Articles for category: Growth

1 hour ago

Greg Thomas

The Brick

The brick is heavy, and when you drop it, it hits the floor, and pieces chip off, but it’s still together. The functions of a brick are limited; it can be used to build something, although without mortar, it would fall over. Carrying it is heavy, and it weighs you down. It needs more to become something useful; it needs mortar, it needs precision, it needs levelling, and other bricks. And once altogether, it becomes something useful. By itself, not so great, but when together, awesomeness. Don’t be a brick, when you could work with a team and be awesome.

2 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Idea Matrix of Your Team

A Matrix is an environment or system where something else, an idea, a product, a concept, takes form and becomes something else. You go into the Matrix and come out changed by it (just like in the movie). The Idea Matrix is the lunchroom chatter, the discussion after a meeting has happened, the back and forth at your desk – that generates the next idea that your team should be working on. The Idea Matrix is a key indicator of growth as well – not all ideas are great, but the ability to generate ideas, the willingness to try new

4 days ago

Greg Thomas

The Direction of AI

I heard a good quote a few weeks ago about AI, because LLMs need to learn, what they learn comes from historical models, which are then used to extrapolate behaviour moving forward with what they have learned. Case in point, to draw, AI had to look at pictures of drawings to define structure and learning in order to draw in a similar model. I pick up a pencil, stare at the piece of paper, and see what comes out. Now, I would love to have the benefit of a model of all these artists in my head to help me

5 days ago

Greg Thomas

Generating Meeting Value

Meetings exist to solve problems and move forward. Those two elements combine to create value. If your meetings are not generating value, then they are reducing it. And right now, you don’t have time to reduce value.

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

Take that Thinking Time

If you don’t take the time to think through a problem, to analyze what’s in front of you, to figure out your next steps. No one will. There is a time to do, and a time to think. When you know all the elements of the problem, that is definitely the time to do, but when you don’t – that’s the time to think. You can be quiet. You can be reserved. You can go into a cave. You can shut everything out. There is no harm in thinking through a problem and not responding immediately. That is where our

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