Articles for category: Growth

December 5, 2018

Greg Thomas

Nobody Wants to be an Assistant

Until they are doing it. Until they are learning new things that they thought they “knew”. Until they start to see things from a different perspective. Until they get to focus on a different set of skills they never got to do as the Leader. The only thing wrong with being an Assistant is to think you can’t contribute the same or more than you were before.

December 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

New Leader, New Leader, New Leader !!!!!

The promise of someone to come in, take the reigns and save the day is always met with one of two responses. Great – here are all our problems, they’re all yours now. Whatever. Most believe the second to be the incorrect response when really it is a sign as to the team having a good understanding of the problem and realizing that throwing people at it will not solve it. The first sets this new person up to fail against all odds trying to fix every problem that has ever happened only because they have the title of Leader

November 26, 2018

Greg Thomas

Refactor What?

It’s not only for code. It’s for that last proposal. Your Invoicing process. Your leadership skills. Your team’s development. Your goals. Your side-hustles. It’s for all of it. Don’t make the common mistake and stop at your code.

November 16, 2018

Greg Thomas

Who makes the real Decisions?

At some point in your life, someone will make a decision for you. You may not know it, you may not see it coming, you may wish it was never made. But it was made. How it affects you? How much you let it bring you down? How much negative emotion do you put into it? Well, that’s your decision to make, it always has been, you just forgot.