Articles for category: Initiative

What Else Can You Do?

Only you know the answer to what else you can do to solve a problem, to fix what’s wrong, to figure out what to work on next. The question of “What Else can you do?” isn’t for someone else to ask, it’s for you to ask of yourself. We do things as a team, but the ones that ask this question of themselves all the time, are the ones that emerge as the leaders.

May 15, 2025

Greg Thomas

Revisiting Old Games

The latest isn’t always the greatest. The current graphics aren’t always the best ones. The nostalgia of what was once good can be the greatest. Someone else might not know the rules of what you played as a kid. Old games are new to someone else, or sometimes they are a reminder of how great they are. Don’t shun them because they are old, embrace them because they never go out of style.

Someone’s Got To Do It

Someone always has to do it. You know it has to be done. You might not be able to be the one to do it. But it still needs to be done, even if everyone else doesn’t see it. The question is whether you’re the one whose going to do it.

May 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

Dips and Dives

When we dive into something, we jump with focus, poise and to some degree – reckless abandon. The goal is to jump in and get started, it’s not to hold back, we are committed to moving forward and accomplishing something. When we take a dip, we put our foot in first, we test the water, we wait for the feedback and response from all of those around us before we commit to moving forward. Dips give us some reassurance that we are on the right path and give us an opportunity to back out. Dives commit us to the task

May 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

Created By a Factory

Always, always, always give credit to the people that created the thing that you are working on, that you adapted, that you are extending, that you are doing something else with. I’ve watched many a Marvel movie and often wondered why they do not start with the people that created that “thing” that spurned something so incredible. What are we afraid of if that should happen? What would be so wrong if they became more than a byline credit? https://www.cbr.com/deadpool-rob-liefeld-marvel-fallout/ Without the creators, we have nothing to start from, take in or enjoy – this goes beyond comics, but everywhere