Articles for category: Growth

July 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leading Worklife Balance by Example

A few weeks ago we had a great interview with Rekha Rao-Mayya on our Season 4 topic of Worklife Balance. Rekha has had the unique experience of moving from Microsoft to Amazon during the pandemic and some of the lessons she has learned along the way were truly interesting to hear. One that resonated with me was leading by example when it comes to work life balance and how she has had to force herself to embody this mantra by living what she says to her team. It’s no longer enough to say – “I’ll keep everyone off you team,

July 24, 2021

Greg Thomas

Too Busy to Grow?

If you ask this question to anyone they will say no. We are not too busy to grow. We are not too busy to get better. We are not too busy to learn. And yet we allow meetings, archaic processes, repetitive tasks, fires, who needs what more, it has to be done yesterday, I need it now or never and “pick your own thing that stops you from learning and growing” anecdote and put it here. If you are too busy to grow, keep doing what you are doing. If you have asked yourself that question and said no. Start

July 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

Huddles vs Meetings

At the first sound of a new meeting, there is a sigh (not of relief) but of dread. Another block of time in your day is taken up by a discussion of sorts that may or may not lead to something productive. Over the past year, we’ve been inundated with meetings that have given them the worst name than they already had before. At the first sound of a huddle, your immediate thought is – “What”s that? Is that the sports thing where they come up with a plan and do something?” That sounds cool? Yeah, let’s do a huddle.

July 19, 2021

Greg Thomas

Software Built on Trust

I’ve written on this topic before in a few places (actually quite a few times based on a quick search of this site). But I decided to expand on it a bit for a recent LinkedIn article. If you’re building software, if you want to build great software, you need to start with trust. To take from the article…  Software Built on Trust starts with Development but it permeates it’s way through Product Management, Sales, Finance, everywhere the organization depends on that delivery. That’s what you can do when starting with the fundamentals of Software Built on Trust.

July 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

You’re Not Ready

Good. Now that you know it, let other people know. Go to any developer site and you’ll find posts upon posts about battling Impostor Syndrome – yup it’s a thing. The biggest reason that Impostor Syndrome has become such a huge thing is that there are environments that incubate this feeling of inadequacy and not being sure of what you can do to the point that it belittles your confidence. Yes we are all too hard on ourselves sometimes (many) but think back to your first part-time job – did you feel like an impostor working as a cashier? flipping

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