Articles for category: Growth

May 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Trimming the Backlog

We get into a meeting, great ideas come out of it and if we are busy, we throw them onto the backlog. This isn’t bad, this is how it should work – you can’t do everything, all the time. Also, it’s a great way to give things time to congeal in people’s heads, let them see what you are building now so they can decide if they reall need this later. Do we truly need AI? Scraping an email will do. But, but… there is always this small part of me that is sad when we trim the backlog and

May 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

What you could be doing?

Our natural response is to look at what is wrong with a particular situation and make lists itemizing all those things, going through what is wrong so you can fix it. But what if you made a different list. A list that instead focused on all the things you could be doing instead of making that list, instead of writing down what happened but instead focused on what you wanted to work on and where you wanted to go and accomplish. Isn’t the second list the one you really want to be working on?

May 2, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team Events in a Remote World

I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we

May 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

What Happened?

When you come back from vacation, there is a giddyness inside of you that wonders what has happened in your absence? Did the project proceed? Did more get done? Did less? What happened without you there? Were new ideas fleshed out and old ones discarded? Whatever it is, I hope it is always positive, the worst feeling is to come back and see that nothing has changed.

April 26, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you Leading to Sell?

Long ago, I was working with a company when one of the managers told me that the CEO was running the company to Sell not to grow. I didn’t understand it at the time but six months later the company sold. When you’re positioning a company to sell, what happens externally to it are very important and how it looks. You aren’t thinking about growth in regards to – we need to hire two more people to keep managing demand – instead its about, lets see what we can do with what we have and keep the cash on hand.

© 2025 Rambli by Greg Thomas. All rights reserved.