Month: May 2016

May 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

It’s not all about the Logo

First thing to do when you start a company – get a logo. Why? Do you have a product to sell? Do you have business cards to put it on? Where is your letter head? Is there a sign over the door that you can put it on? Are the t-shirts coming next week and you need it now? Are you about to tatoo it onto your back? Do you have an invoice that needs your logo on it? No, none of that is happening, even if you have a website up and running, it doesn’t need your logo on it.

May 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Villians of a Great Team

Almost a year ago, I did a Slideshare presentation on How to Build a Great Team.  This is the follow-up to that presentation with The Villains of a Great Team which includes the familiar comic book slant as included in How to Build a Great Team but focussed around what character traits you need to watch for so they don’t take over and dominate your team as well as how to eliminate from your team dynamic. https://www.slideshare.net/GregThomas3/the-villains-of-a-great-team

May 13, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Late Night Hotfix

You know what I miss, I miss the late night customer call that everything is broken  and we need to fix it – code or configuration – it doesn’t matter. Okay I lie, I only partially miss this because I know all the pain and stress that goes along with it where a late night hotfix is never 5 minutes and always a long night of hours followed by showing up the next day. And it’s not the fixes I miss per se, it’s the team coming together to solve a problem, no other singular focus but to get that

May 12, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Aftermath of a Mistake

It’s interesting to see the aftermath of a mistake. Someone says something wrong, well they are going to do it again so let’s write them off. Someone didn’t approach the problem in the way you would have and it went sideways, not doing that again. Someone tried beyond their hardest, went too far and well we wouldn’t want that person to try again now would we. Someone was already overloaded with everything else on their plate and dropped the ball on this one thing, well then, they are totally undependable and never, ever will be again. It’s better to hold a mistake

May 11, 2016

Greg Thomas

You still need a Backup

You know all that great code you wrote last night when you were “in the zone”?  Or all those spreadsheets and budget files you’ve been working on for the past few weeks that amount to not an hour, but hours and hours, almost full days of work? Still not feeling it? Take something really important from your current device of choice – your computer, laptop, phone, whatever – the most important thing you can think of and imagine it is now gone. Feel that pit growing in your stomach? Now go, look online for someone, anyone that restores that kind of

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