Articles for category: Initiative

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Inside Out of Problem Solving

In any problem, there are people on the outside looking in, complaining about the issue, criticizing the response, and arguing about the ways things should be. Then there are those on the inside, the ones working the problem, coming up with different options, running scenarios, trying out what may or may not work. When you’re inside the problem, you’re putting in the effort, you’re trying to break through the noise and see what the issue is. When you’re outside the problem, you’re critiquing the work of others, trying to fix what is broken. You can be inside or out, but

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Memories

Memories grow with experience. What worked? What didn’t work? What should we have done? What should we never do again? How did we feel? Memories give us experience, and they allow us to relive them, play them over again and again in our heads. The Memories are what remind us of what we are working towards and give us the reminder for where we can go.

10 months ago

Greg Thomas

The Climb

The Climb is arduous, slippery, rocky, fraught with danger. The Climb doesn’t care whether you make it or not, it’s there for you to do what you will with it. The Climb doesn’t care about what threats come your way – whether the weather gets worse or better, whether they’re predators waiting to strike at your weakest moment. The Climb doesn’t care how prepared you are – whether you have a jacket, an extra pair of socks, or a sleeping bag. The Climb is there for you to take on if you so choose. If you want to run or

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Going Up Against the Best

When you go up against the best, you are more than likely going to fall down, trip up, or make a mistake. After all, they are the best, and you are not, so they know how to do everything and anything to stop you in your tracks. But the more you go up against them, the better you will become, the smarter you will get, you will start to see patterns emerge, and you will add them to your toolbox. Eventually, the falling down and trip ups will minimize and you’ll start to hold you own, possibly even surpassing them.

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Giving out the Options

Picking the solution is the easy part, it’s the options that take time. The analysis, the evaluations, the comparison, and narrowing down to the most applicable is the most important work that happens before you give out the options. It’s not easy work, but when presented to those who need to pick a solution, it greatly simplifies their lives and makes moving forward that much easier. When the option analysis is convoluted, messy, incomplete, or stretches out anything and everything, the selection of the solution becomes problematic and generally stagnates as confusion sets in. Giving out the Options, is the

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