Articles for category: Growth

April 29, 2020

Greg Thomas

Start Before You Show Up

Before you get to the next meeting, learn about what it is about. Take 5 minutes and think about what is being asked of you. What questions will you ask? What questions will be asked to you? What materials would prove useful to bring? What will you be required to do? How will you present yourself? The goal of any meeting is to accomplish a particular objective and not to have the meeting. The need for the meeting is greater than what can be accomplished via an email. So before you get there, show up and be ready, only then

April 28, 2020

Greg Thomas

Learning New Platforms

When building software on a new platform there is only one thing you need to understand. The Platform. This goes for writing requirements. This goes for doing trials. This goes for testing. This goes for selling it. This goes for marketing it. This goes for running performance tests. This goes for deploying it. This goes for building software on it. If you don’t understand the platform, if you can’t communicate the platform, if don’t know where to tweak the platform and if you aren’t going to learn about the platform. Then you probably shouldn’t be delivering a solution on the

April 17, 2020

Greg Thomas

Am I Leading a Team or Delivering Code?

One of the biggest questions new leaders ask themselves when things get a little heady with their first team. What’s most important? The Team or the Delivery. Everyone will give you their own opinions but the only opinion that truly matters is yours. You know what you need to lead. You know what your team can deliver. And most importantly, you know what they need right now. The tricky part, is selling what you know to everyone else around you, because they aren’t like you, and they don’t see what you see – which is that you have the greatest

April 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Usual Suspects

We all know who they are. The usual group that when they get together, the same results happen, or rather don’t happen. Nothing changes, progress creeps to a halt and the everyone wonders aloud what went wrong. For change to happen, you some times need to break up the suspects and put them in their own corners, let them go or walk away. Whichever you choose, know that it isn’t your fault

April 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

Are we still working Late?

The biggest hurdle to working from home, is knowing when to shut it down. This isn’t easy to overcome. I’ve spent many years working remotely and leaving the laptop alone, walking past it and not wondering what I might have missed while I was relaxing, is a hard temptation to resist. Some tips; Set your phone to Do Not Disturb during certain hours of the night, take a break, you need it. Work the consistent schedule that works for you and stick with it. Resist the urge to take calls later and later into the day when you would normally

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