Month: January 2022

January 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

And now a word from nature…

Yesterday we had a crazy amount of snow, fall where I live, it shut down schools and businesses. We are okay with it because it is temporary, we can see when nature will end and when our normally scheduled work lives will resume. It’s days like these that we would all cherish the opportunity to work remotely, no buses being stuck in the snow, no 3-hour drives, no getting to the office and no one being there. We simply took a pause. We can still take pauses, they help us deliver more when we do.

January 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

To Be Continued…

Remember when you were a kid, you’d be watching Saturday morning cartoons, watching your favourite episode, loving the life out of it. At some point through the episode, you’d start to think – “they aren’t going to finish this, they have 4 minutes left, how are they going to wrap this up?” Then it would popup on your screen – “TO BE CONTINUED…” – and you’d sit there for a few seconds wondering what might happen next. Maybe you’d think about it on Sunday. And here and there the rest of the week, but one thing was for sure. You

January 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Your First Team Meeting

The most important meeting you will ever have with your team is your first one. And there are only a few rules; Introduce yourself  – but don’t showcase yourself (they have LinkedIn, they can read all about you). What are they working on – you don’t know, they do, ask them, if you are confused, write down the questions and discuss with them One-On-One, don’t derail the meeting on one person, you need to hear every person talk. Where do they need help – you don’t want to have 2 mins left to discuss, you want to have as much

January 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Forced Pauses

Take a moment and think about what you are doing and why you are doing it. If it doesn’t make sense, don’t do it. If you can’t see it working out, don’t do it. Take a pause, tell people you are taking a pause. When we press pause on a show, it’s to go and do something, some other priority is nagging us (bathroom, food, talk to someone, etc) – we pause and go deal with the larger priority at hand.  You can’t talk to three people at once, get a bite and keep watching your show and actually get

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