Articles for category: Drive

March 25, 2022

Greg Thomas

What do you Bring to the Table?

It’s a tough question to ask of yourself because it can only be answered by yourself. But once you ask it, you know what you do and don’t bring. And what you don’t bring becomes the plan for you to figure out how to get there.

March 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

Better Marker Boards

I don’t want pretty boxes. I don’t want the connection to file shares. I don’t want auto-syncing to different apps across every phone. I want a marker board, online, that lets me draw out ideas, throw the virtual marker to someone else where they can very easily wipe over everything, draw over everything, make a mess of what we are doing and then look at what we’ve created. I want it to somehow mimic how we used to walk into an office and see it as we walked to our desks and sat down, pondering what we wrote before. That’s

March 20, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leading Technical Debt

It happened, you have debt, and right now it might be akin to standing in a room with a mess all around you and you don’t know where to start. Despite everything that’s around you, you can’t do it all at once, to do so would mean putting the breaks on everything else you are doing – which most companies cannot afford primarily because customers are key. Where to start? Get the small wins – start small – pick up your clothes, throw out the garbage – see the floor (you might be missing something). What is hurting you?  I

Finishing Up

When you leave, you finish strong. You bring the end game. You leave no doubt who they are losing and what your potential is. You let them know they had the best and the brightest and they made the wrong trade. This isn’t about showing off or lording it over them. This is about doing what you have always done – driving to the problem, taking the initiative, and leading the way.

March 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Tangibles vs the InTangibles

The Tangibles are the metrics, the numbers, the data, the things that you can’t argue about – “we delivered on time” or “we were late”. The InTangibles are the gut feelings, the thoughts, the ideas, the context.  You can’t measure them. The InTangibles are what people want to hear about because they generally provide the correlation and the context to the Tangibles. But you can’t talk about them until you have presented the tangibles. The job then becomes to make the tangibles known, as easily and as a quickly as possible so you can focus on what really matters –