Articles for category: Growth

February 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

What You’re Up Against

Do you know what you’re up against? Another team? Another product? Another competitor? Is that what you’re up against or is that what is easy to write down that you’re up against? Perhaps it’s more… Your own ideas? Your ability to execute? Your own ambition? The other person down the hall who is trying to get work done as quickly as you? The podcast that ships out content 2 days before you? You might not be up against what you think you are actually up against. And if you don’t know who you’re up against, how do you know you

February 17, 2025

Greg Thomas

On Doing Research

When you don’t know the answer to a problem, you need to go look it up. It might not be as formal as what it used to be – going to the library or bookstore – but what you’re doing is still the same – Research. You’re digging into a topic you want to find the answer to. The problem (if you want to call it that) with Research, is that when we start doing Research, it opens up more and more questions, you get a bit deeper, find your answer, and hen come up with a few other questions

February 9, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Gig where No one Listens

If no one listens to what you say, is it really a project you’re working on? Are you actually contributing to something? Are you a part of something? The choice is yours, work with them to get them to start listening to you, help them see what you’re trying to move them towards, or step back and out – you don’t need that ongoing frustration in your life, you have more to offer. Someone is always willing to listen and there is someone out there that wants your advice – they just haven’t found you.

February 8, 2025

Greg Thomas

Going Your Way

Things are great when everything is going your way. When the weather is what you want. When your morning beverage has the right of everything in it with nothing to spare. When your code compiles the first time, it does what it’s supposed to do. Pretty much everything and anything you’re doing, is rocking and rolling your way. These are great days – When things Go our Way – and we are happy for them. But there will be days when the world doesn’t go your way, no one agrees with you, your day is filled with arguments and confusion

February 7, 2025

Greg Thomas

All the Reasons Why it Won’t Work

I can sit you down and give you all the reasons why it won’t work, whatever it is you’re doing, whyever it is that you are doing it. I can come up with all those reasons. Anyone can, whether they know your business or not, they can come up with those reasons on the spot. It’s a new market. It’s not proven. Won’t you need more people? What if this happens? Is it worth the risk? You can either accept those reasons as to what they are – someone who went into the future in their time machine, found out