September 21, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Journey to Wrong

If you know where you are headed is not where you want to go, but you’re “committed” to getting there because you’ve already invested in the journey, it’s not going to get better when you get there. That’s a lot but simply – “if you are having trouble with the way you are doing things and you keep doing things that way, you’re headed for the exact same problems you have today” (I don’t know if that was simpler, but you get the idea).

September 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Team Driver

There is always someone on the team who drives the car. Having two drivers will always result in a person having to take their hands off the wheel otherwise it’s a constant back-and-forth push and pull down the road when what the team needs is to be going straight. If there is no driver, step up and become the driver. If there is a driver, but they don’t know where to go, help them navigate. But only one can drive.

September 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

Keep it Simple

Complicating it, providing options, features, checkboxes, and radio buttons. We think it makes it better, but all it does is complicate it. Make it do what it was supposed to do, make it simple, and make it clean. That’s what your customers are here for.

September 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

The Road is Less Travelled for a Reason

Because it’s harder. But in the end, it’s worth it, but who wants to do things the hard way? Who wants to do all that extra work to get?  Where? This post has most likely been cued by the Tv Show “For all Mankind”, where the road was less traveled, but worth the work to get there.

September 17, 2022

Greg Thomas

Hybrid Team Events

Hybrid Team Events are no longer going to be the outlier, they are going to become the norm. Virtual Pubs and Trivia Nights worked because everyone is in the same boat, we were all confined to our rooms so the experience was the same for all – give or take the odd standing desk, bigger rooms, and nicer windows. Hybrid events mean the scales are tipped, not everyone is at home, and it might only be 25% now, maybe less, and to exclude them from your team means you are inadvertently putting a wedge between them, leaving them alone, not