Month: November 2020

November 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Building Habits

They start small and when they hit their peak, they build momentum until they become unstoppable. Since April, I’ve been working on a few. They aren’t peaking at this point, but like everything, I track my effort and they are growing at a rate which shows progress. Every few months I push it a little more, only because I want to see what I can do but mainly so I can stabilize a habit at that level before moving onto the next one. There are times I miss my target, that’s why I don’t raise the target each month, what’s

November 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Growing Your Team

If you want the members of your team to grow and become more than they are, you’re going to need to change your tactics. Placating them with platitudes of how great the work they are doing is, how well they are doing, how awesome they are, how you wish you had fifteen of them, how they should be doing your job, etc, etc, etc – is not going to help them grow. It’s going to help them leave. Because they are going to realize that if they want to grow they need to find someone else who can help them

November 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

A Dead Battery

This week, my car battery died. For two days it was a pain as I had no vehicle and had to get it replaced. Not being a car guy, this was a lot of on-the-spot learning in how to do this. What can I say, I get spooked when connecting high-voltage metal objects together. I had a great teacher and in less than an hour I was back up and running. Between it being broken and getting it fixed we boosted it, tried to give it a manual charge, all of those things you try to do. In the end,

November 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

5% Better

What does 5% get you? In school it was the difference between a C and a B or a B and a A. If you were to increase the throughput or download speed of your application by 5% that would be significance. If you were starving for space on an overcrowded 5 Terabyte Hard Drive, that’s 250 GB of saved space. Now what if you were able to get an additional 5% out of your team? What about if you were to get 5% extra from that person struggling on your team? You don’t need to get them to do

November 6, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Components of your Success

Right now, you’re probably realizing that your success to date in the great year of 2020 was built upon all the building blocks you put into effect in late 2019 and early 2020. You’ve gotten by because you’ve been riding that wave of planning that has propelled you through the rest of the year that you’ve had to tweak, but has gotten you through. In looking forward to what is next, it’s not enough to keep pushing off this important component “hoping” that things are going to get better and you’ll be able to go back to the old way

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