Articles for category: Initiative

April 30, 2025

Greg Thomas

The longevity of Cords

I think I replace more cords over the course of a year then anything else. I can buy them anywhere but sometimes they aren’t “the good ones”, and they don’t last as long. The fall apart easily and stop charging after a few months. Why? No one knows, it’s like the lost sock in your dryer, they just go away, never to be heard from again. And then you forget the right the adapter, or maybe it doesn’t line up and of course everyone has a different device so now we are trying to figure out who has what and

April 26, 2025

Greg Thomas

Roll with It

Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the picnic inside). You can’t change the project you’ve been on for much that has been scuttled and now you’re onto something else. You can’t change

April 24, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Final Test

The Last Test is the one that will determine your future. It’s not the last test, because now you have to take another one. And that won’t be the last one either. There is never a last test, only the next test. And after the Next Test, you want to push for there to be another one, because that’s how you keep moving forward.

April 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

But who Owns it?

A random message goes out on Teams – “Who can help me with this?” Crickets. No one can. Or everyone can. But no one knows who owns it, so no one knows whether they should work on it. So no one puts their hand up. The subject line of the follow-up meeting is “Do I own this?” If the answer is yes, great, if the answer is no, great. But now we all know.

April 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

Speaking Over Each Other

I think one of the downfalls of remote work is that we don’t always feel like we are being heard enough. The “Hand Raise” icons aren’t enough. And our immediate response is then to speak over each other, continually over and over again. As a result, the usefulness of our meetings declines because there is no more direction toward solving an issue, we only want to hear ourselves being heard. The question then becomes how to do we ensure that everyone will always be heard and give them the proper opportunity to speak. You create a goal, you create an

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