Month: October 2024

October 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

Biking in the Rain

Biking in the rain is a weird endeavor. One – biking is minimal impact to your body (unless you get hit by a car) so the exercise is good. But biking in the rain can become a miserable experience, you’re soaked, you have to be more careful and it’s hard to see. There is the option to simply not bike, but if you go one way, you have to go the other way to get back. Biking is quite like leading a team or project, when the conditions are perfect, it’s awesome – the sun is shining, you can feel

October 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Planning is your Problem

If you’ve had 2 months to work on a project and you started it a week before and now have delays thrown at you or have to wait for others -the waits and the delays are not the problem. Waiting to start was your problem. Not planning out when to begin was your problem. Don’t blame the project on your planning.

October 15, 2024

Greg Thomas

Work Tossed Out

If you’ve ever spent months, long months, serious months – to finish a project. To get through all the work, the meetings, the politics, the back and forth, the bugs. To see people not use it, or to see the work tossed out, is hard to handle. You put your everything into it for nothing to happen. Sure you learned and gained knowledge, but no one using it, that’s tough. If you haven’t had this happen, it will, if you had had it happen, chin up, the next project is around the corner. And really, that’s it, all you can

October 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

What’s In an Options Analysis

The Options. What they are, what’s good about them, what’s bad about them – maybe what the cost is? But more importantly, it’s your recommendation – what you think and why. Anyone can come up with options, but a recommendation, a direction, a path – that’s the real reason you’re doing this – because people want to see what you’ll do when given the reigns to lead and move forward with solving a problem. The next question is whether you lead with the recommendation or hold onto it till the end. You lead with it. Ending with it means you’re

October 13, 2024

Greg Thomas

Scramble

This is a cool word. It means “to move or climb quickly but with difficulty”. The last part is what makes it cool. Everyone can move fast but are you willing to do it against difficulty, hampered, being held back. We see it sometimes as an extension of “Scatter” which is to go in a variety of ways all over the place but it’s not even close. But when we Scramble, we’re fighting against the barriers to get somewhere and not giving up.

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