Articles for category: Growth

November 5, 2019

Greg Thomas

First Steps

First steps make second steps possible. Start walking, then you can run. Code before you compile. Learn before you teach. Read someone’s work before you ask questions. Work on your problem before seeing other’s help. Say thank you before your welcome. Try before you give up. The first step is always needed before you get to the second, it’s the hardest to take, it’s the one we hold back on because the second step looks that much easier. That’s because someone took the first step to get there.

October 25, 2019

Greg Thomas

Heads Down Meeting

If you are in a meeting and haven’t taken your eyes off your phone or laptop – you probably didn’t need to be there. It’s a simple barometer check to see if you are providing value or losing time to finish wh

October 22, 2019

Greg Thomas

If you Don’t want to Hear No

Then don’t ask for feedback. Ask for validation instead, because the answer will always yes (or begrudgingly be yes when you emphasize that you are looking for validation). But if you can handle hearing No, your path to growth will be all the better because of it.

October 16, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Cycle of Change

We can iterate, nimble, agile, push, ship daily and continuously improve as much as we want, but if the team isn’t catching up you’re doing more harm than good. This doesn’t mean you give up, this means you find the breaking points, you find what is holding people back and you zone in on them. Doing the basic math, if they are stuck on Step 1, then you know they are going to be stuck on Step 5, so going ahead to Step 5 will not do them any good. You know that feeling you have in a meeting, when

October 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

Always To Win

Always Lead to Win Always Play to Win. Always Code to Win. Always Bake to Win. Always Ship to Win. Always Wake up to Win. Always Debate to Win. Always Knit to Win. Always Create to Win. Always Check-In to Win. Always Compile to Win. If your whole purpose is to win, in everything you do, how will you focus on growth? What does you being first to complete your code, leaving the team behind do for the overall feature delivery? What does having checking in your work before the interfaces are completed do for builds? What does having all

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