Month: May 2016

May 10, 2016

Greg Thomas

Knowing is Half the Battle

Three things I learned last week that you can apply to anything, anything in life. I don’t take credit for any of these, but I find myself repeating them to myself through every interaction I have had since then.  Take a problem you are working on and apply the below. What you know Simply put, what do you know about the problem, what facts do you have in front of you that jump out at you as important and frame the view of what is forming the framework of the problem.  The facts, not the emotions and definitely not the

May 9, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Critical Post

  Someone isn’t going to like how you coded that interface today. The latest chapter of your book is going to be ripped apart for the plethora of grammar errors running through it. What you thought was a good document, will be dissected and discarded. All that studying you put in, was on the wrong chapter. Your email etiquette just didn’t make the cut today. Years of slaving away on that product was torn apart by one of our trial sites and shared with everyone. Each time you went to kick the ball, someone told you to do it a completely different

May 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

Focus on Less to Accomplish More

You know the saying about doing more with less to make something happen? It’s usually thrown out be the person being asked for something and they have nothing to give.  Or in the case where you need to dig deep, tap into that unused motivation and turn water into wine and MAKE IT HAPPEN! It’s close, but the statement is little off, really what it should read as is… Focus on Less to Accomplish More. You have twenty tasks to do this week, do you think you are going to get them all done?  Best guess, if you invested 25%

May 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

Something is going to go Wrong

Something is going to go wrong today. Code will break. Builds will fail. Customers will flood the lines. Your website will go down. Someone will leave. You’ll lose your presentation. Someone will take your idea. Maybe not in the same realm of the above, but something will go wrong today, it will not go as planned. So – is now a good time to throw it all out the window?  If you can’t have the perfect day then forget it and toss it to the yard? Yeah, not everything is going to go your way and the day might end

May 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

Leaving is Personal

When someone leaves your team, your organization, your whatever – it’s not business, it’s personal – there said it. But not for the reason that you think. If you’ve ever had this happen to you, you know the feeling inside that you can’t shake for the next two weeks and for all the times thereafter.  I can name all the people that have left while they were on my team.  I can tell you exactly how they each did it and what went through at my mind the instant they approached me, the instant in which they told me and

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