Articles for category: Initiative

5 months ago

Greg Thomas

Every Day’s Chance

Every day, is a chance to do better what you did the day before. A chance to make things better. A chance to finish the job you started. A chance to tackle the job you have been putting off. A chance to show up better. A chance to fix what is broken. Every day is a chance, as long as you’re willing to take it.

Finding Someone to Keep Up

When you’re younger, everyone is pushing you to keep up It’s an all-out assault on the senses as every person you meet is giving you advice on what you should and shouldn’t do. There is a big push to keep up as there are invariably more people ahead of you then behind (its just numbers). Finding someone to keep up with is easy; even in professional circles, there are many, many places for you to look. Eventually, things shift as more people try to keep up with you, and the pressure wanes as you no longer need to keep up

AI’s Promise

AIs promise is to save time for the good things in life. To do that, we need to give it carefully crafted prompts and assignments for it to do its work. In some cases, we pay AI to do this work for us, and we hope AI is up to the task. The thing is, AI isn’t up to the task just yet; it’s getting there, but the fulfillment of the promise is not going to happen for a while. So what do you do until that time? Work the problem, don’t throw it in the garbage, but work the

Who’s the Real Expert?

If you want to rank who is an expert in your company from 1 to n, you might be surprised where you land. This happens because we invariably rank ourselves in the context of the skills that we have, and not the skills that we need to have and/or don’t have. I.e., when you rank yourself, you’re ranking yourself against your own yardstick, not everyone else’s. Who sits at the top might surprise you because it’s not a skill that would lead you to think of being an expert in the company. What’s this all to say? You’re not an