Articles for category: Growth

February 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

Plan your Demos

I’m a big fan of doing demos on the fly.  Fire up the compiler, and show people what you’ve done. They are meant to be exciting, exhilarating and the best forum in the world to get feedback on how you are doing. Whether you plan it or not, you should always show up ready to go.  If you aren’t ready to go, push it off, an hour, a day (no more than a day) but deliver it. Tell the story of what you are building, show the value of what you’ve created. If you need to plan it out, go

February 22, 2022

Greg Thomas

Leading the Army of One

Whenever I’m stuck on a piece of code I can’t get past or take a look at that one user story no one wants to work on or look at the daunting amount of email I have in my inbox I always ask myself that same question… Can you Lead the Army of One? This question takes on greater meaning when working with new developers that want to take on leadership roles (whether with people, projects, or code) and I always start off with this – Can you lead yourself? The knee-jerk reaction always is – “Well I got here

February 15, 2022

Greg Thomas

Do You Own It or Run It

When you own something you treat it very differently than if you were simply running it. Owning it means you are responsible for it, you have a vested interest in it, you want to see it succeed and become something greater. Running it is making it gets from point A to B as quickly as possible. We make Owning it sound like a bad thing because then we are responsible and accountable for the outcome and that is a “a lot”. It’s not, but it is what we need to grow.  

February 12, 2022

Greg Thomas

Well then, you do it

This is the general response when something isn’t going well, we blurt it out in a moment of frustration as we throw our hands up in the air. There is another response though, one that doesn’t get used often enough. Here, let me show you. We don’t say offer that enough, because it takes more time and energy.

February 10, 2022

Greg Thomas

Falling Over

I fall down… a lot. No matter how much experience you have, how many GURU, EXPERT, ROCKSTAR titles you have, you will fall over. You won’t stick the landing every time. And who wants to do that.  I eschew the day where I stick the landing perfectly without even trying. Because than I’m no longer falling over, I’m just standing there, afraid to fall over.

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