Month: July 2024

July 26, 2024

Greg Thomas

When your Leading Breaks

Did your new initiative break? Did it not go as expected? Was the team unhappy with what you tried to do that didn’t work? Did it blow up in your face? Good – that’s the idea, your leading should break at some point.  If it’s not breaking, it means you’re not working on it, and if you’re not working on it, it means you’re not trying to get better, it means you’re coasting. And if you’re leading your team right, they will be there to give you feedback and support and help you along the way. That foundation is what

July 25, 2024

Greg Thomas

It gets Better when it’s Broken

When things break, you can do any of the following; Get mad that it broke. Complain that it broke. Run around screaming that someone broke it. Schedule a meeting to discuss that it broke. Argue about the level of brokenness within it. Or, you can get to fixing.

July 24, 2024

Greg Thomas

Replacement Parts

It is incredibly frustrating to replace a thing that’s about to break with newer parts only have it to not work as well as it did. Maybe it was time, wear and tear or simply the way things were glued together – but they worked – and now that they’ve been touched they don’t. Sometimes you leave the things that are working, working because they keep humming along and getting the job done. Sometimes you don’t need the shiniest parts to show how cool it looks, it just needs to work.

July 23, 2024

Greg Thomas

What That Darned Green Icon Measures

That little green icon means nothing. It doesn’t measure what matters. Your value Your Input Your contributions Your suggestions Your ideas Your innovation It measures whether your screensaver has kicked in or your mouse is moving. Don’t let a mouse movement become your master, if you need to step away from your computer to work out a problem on a whiteboard, do it and become better for it.

July 22, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s in a Status Update?

It’s up to you how you want to present your status. It doesn’t have to be what you did / didn’t do. It can be what you accomplished. It can be what you struggled with. It can be a slide presentation. It is a song. It can be anything you want. So make it yours, because it’s all about you, so it might as well be great.

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