Articles for category: Growth

July 13, 2018

Greg Thomas

You’re Getting the Wrong Answer

Because you’re asking the wrong questions. Your team isn’t late because they all don’t use the same tools. Your team is late because no one is helping coordinate the different tools. The reason you missed that delivery deadline wasn’t because the bug count was too high. It was because the feature load was preposterous and was never going to be met. We shy from asking the wrong questions because the answers that come aren’t immediate and cannot be answered by one person. You know if you’re getting the easy answer, you’ve been to the rodeo before, the next time you

July 12, 2018

Greg Thomas

How You Can Serve Your Team Better?

If you’ve never asked them, you can start there. That’s really all there is. There is no complicated mumbo jumbo or fancy leadership style books to read or culture decks to download. Just ask them what they need and start there. The plan, the strategy, the direction? You can figure that out later, but not until you talk to your team.

June 27, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Juggling Experiment

I’ve been wanting to learn to juggle forever, not chainsaws, just basic juggling. Three objects, not four or five. More importantly, I wanted to know how long it would take to from zero to 100. 0 being “I can’t juggle 3 balls”. 100 being “I can juggle 3 balls” Before getting started, I estimated it would take me a solid 12 hours to learn. I used this site as my guide – https://www.wikihow.com/Juggle – printed it, and put it beside my workspace. Here are the results and the time it took. PS – I put this off for a long time, I

June 8, 2018

Greg Thomas

The People that Learn from Failure

Are easy to spot. They don’t complain about it. They don’t make excuses for it. They don’t look to their phones for inspiration. They take a moment (because everyone needs one). They figure out what went wrong. They do the work to fix the problem. And they try again with a different approach, different goal and objective. They might fail again, but when they do, they are that much farther than those still complaining and making excuses about it.

May 31, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Program/Course You Need

I’m in the middle of a program/seminar/project/course (you can call it all of these things).  It has required me to work with a community of people I don’t know to push my learning, goals, thoughts (and yes dreams) further than I have ever thought possible. With each project/prompt, I have somewhere between 10 – 15 colleagues who know WAAAAY more than me helping me to get better, poking holes in my work, pushing me to achieve and not letting me get off easy when I don’t show up to do the work. This morning I woke up to at 16+

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