Articles for category: Growth

August 28, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Successful Software Manager

When I first became a Software Manager, I was pretty lost, not sure what to do or where to start. I was pretty lucky in that I had a strong supporting environment and picked things up over time. Recently I was reading the book – “The Successful Software Manager” by Herman Fung and this brought me back to that first day to when I wasn’t sure where to start, what to work on, where I should be focusing my time and what I should be looking to do next week, month, year, etc with the team. Over the years, I’ve

August 15, 2019

Greg Thomas

Comparing Your Success to Others

It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because the paths you took are different. The courses you learned might be different. The time you both put in is different. The what you do with your free time is different. The people you hang out with are different. The how you get to work is different. It’s all different, so the comparisons are invalid – compare to you and move on from there.

August 14, 2019

Greg Thomas

Have Fun with It

There is too much noise on the hustle, the side-project, the long-game, the short-game, the in-between game, the what matters now, the what you need to learn, the where you need to go, the courses you need to take, the what matters most, the what it all comes down to, the what matters most, the politics that drive us, the lessons we learn, the celebration of failure, the plateau of going nowhere, the wondering of what’s next, the taking the lumps, the licking the bruises, the wanting to be a success, the lack of experience, the going against the grain,

July 31, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Bumps Make us Stronger

The hits we take. The failures we go through. The roadblocks we run into. The walls we crash into. The jobs we don’t get. The presentations that don’t work. The lessons that fail. They make us stronger, but only if we let them. If we don’t, they simply make us angrier (which is the opposite of where we want to go).

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