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11 months ago

Greg Thomas

How Best to Notify?

When it comes to notifying your users of “what it is you want to notify them about”, the implementation and medium of the notification is just as important as the notification itself. Not going to read the logs or look at the dashboard?  No need to store it anywhere. Is an immediate response required?  Text Message or Slack alert might be the best. Is having the notification as good as seeing it?  Sounds like a job for an email. Beyond the delivery, who needs to know and what they need to do with it are critical. Am I sending this

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

Is No Answer Better?

Is No Answer better than an answer? We hope it’s more akin to Schrodinger’s Cat in that there is still hope and we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. Hope still abounds. In today’s “always on” world of having your phone everywhere, the time for Schrodinger’s Cat to exist becomes shorter and shorter than ever before. So does No Answer, in an always on world, mean something else now?  Does it mean the answer leans more towards No than towards the hope for a Yes? When you don’t get an immediate response from someone what do

11 months ago

Greg Thomas

I Finally Won!

It took 10+ attempts, but I finally won. Would I have bought them anyway?  For sure, I’m not in it for the contest or the bonus. So if you’re in regardless, and a contest or bonus isn’t going to change your level of commitment – what would? Now flip the script to your team – if they are in it and an extra 1.5% bonus isn’t going to change anything, what would? That’s the question leaders need to ask themselves when thinking of keeping their team engaged.    

12 months ago

Greg Thomas

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.

12 months ago

Greg Thomas

The End is in Sight

The end is in sight. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel. All that you have put into completing this project is there, it’s so close you can taste it. Now the question is whether you will be able to take it the last few steps, across the finish line. Sometimes when the end is in sight, we take our foot off the pedal, because we’re almost there, we’re going to get there anyway, what shape or form does it matter in the end? When the End in Sight, this shouldn’t be the signal for you