Month: March 2022

March 5, 2022

Greg Thomas

Are you Ready?

Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re asking is; Are you ready to take the lead and figure out how this works? Are you ready to learn something new? Are you ready

March 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Think Like a Farmer

You can’t skip days being a farmer. If you want to sell food at the market in September, you need to till the soil in April, plant in May, water and tend throughout June and July, and pick in August. I most likely have some of the actions and durations mistaken, but you get the picture. You can’t show up in August and do all those things that you should have done months before and expect it to be as good as if you had followed the plan to build up to the big sale in September. Some vegetables would

March 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Training On Your Own

Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working to get better. And it’s where we do our best work, value that effort the most and remember those lessons we learned when we did

March 2, 2022

Greg Thomas

Could Not Process Error

Someone sent me this error last week. “Could not Process” They asked me if I knew what it was or what it related to. All I could think about was how unhappy that Developer must have been at that point to have written that error with no subsequent log or follow-up information to help the next person to move forward. How bad was their day that this was all they could give?

March 1, 2022

Greg Thomas

Tweak the Process

Processes are meant to be tweaked. To overhaul them, to have the suggestion that they need to be overhauled by one person on their team means one of two things; They don’t understand the process (and thereby think it needs to change) They understand the process (and thereby know it needs to change) You only overhaul once, after that, it’s tweaking on tweaks to keep improving it and making it better. If you’re overhauling your process all the time, you aren’t in the business of whatever it was you were in before, you’re in the business of building processes (which

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