Articles for category: Growth

December 14, 2017

Greg Thomas

Trust Doesn’t start at 100

It starts at zero. You didn’t come into this world trusting your parents 100%, you didn’t even know them. So you cried every chance you got. Over time you came to recognize their voice and touch and gave in to trusting them a little more each day. Your team is the exact same (save maybe the crying). You need to earn their trust so it goes above 100, not start at 100, letting it erode over time. Hint: Whether it’s growing from 0 – 100 or eroding from 100 – 0, the steps aren’t large, heavy actions, they are the

November 30, 2017

Greg Thomas

Were you hired to fix the Problem or Perform a Function?

Are you being hired to find the problem and fix it or are you being hired to do a task that might help fix the problem? How many times have you asked what the problem is that is trying to be solved and what you are being asked to do directly to resolve it? Not an easy question to answer? “We’re growing the team and have some stuff to do.” “The next release is late and we need more help.” “I’m replacing my headcount.” These aren’t problems to be solved, these are functions to be filled. Everyone can fill a

November 13, 2017

Greg Thomas

Refocus

I’ve written about this before, but it always bears mentioning again. Refocusing your efforts isn’t a once year activity, it’s a twice a month, every other month, every month, every week and today activity that you are always working on and working towards. You don’t get better by refocusing on a predefined schedule waiting for “Refocus” day to arrive, you get better by constantly looking at what you do and figuring out what and how you can do it better. Scheduling Refocus time, waiting for it to happen, to arrive, is easy, simple and without any emotion. Doing it all

October 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

Ship Until You Get to Perfect

Episode 8 of the Sniffing Marker’s Podcast had a lot of great content in it on finding clients. But despite our best efforts, we were still struggling with audio quality so my voice sounds like I’m in a tunnel. That’s life, that’s how it goes when you are trying to ship and make something happen and forget about it being perfect. I’m much more satisfied that we delivered vs waiting another two weeks to get it right thereby delaying delivery another week after that. Because with those 3 extra weeks, we can learn more, generate more content and keep getting

© 2025 Rambli by Greg Thomas. All rights reserved.