Articles for category: Growth

21 hours 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

3 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

4 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.

6 days 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

1 week ago

Greg Thomas

The Learning Rhythm

When you slip into the learning rhythm, it feels like time has stopped. You’re in the zone, and nothing is impossible. Instead of it being an arduous task, it’s the direction to your future career laid out right in front of you. It’s not easy getting into the rhythm, because it takes humbling and failing – more than we care to admit – but when it works, then we’re on fire, and the rhythm goes from being here and there to being a constant part of your life that everything leaps from.

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