February 17, 2023
If you aren’t contributing to the meeting, you might not need to be there. If the push is to still have you there, that means you are there in a support role to speak up when it comes to needing to hear another voice. But if you’re not even doing that, it means you are there because we don’t trust that you’ll get the information you need to do your job successfully. That’s the problem with meetings.
February 7, 2023
Incremental training investments will ALWAYS beat out the week-long conference, the half-day marathon leadership session, the full-day retreat – those are still good “things” to train at, but they are not the training that will push you forward. Kobe Bryant gives a great talk on this (less than 2 mins). I’m not advocating for getting up at 3am to train, but the message is pure and simple – you put in 30 minutes today, that’s 30 minutes you didn’t put in yesterday – you keep putting in that time 3 – 4 days over the course of a week, that’s
January 20, 2023
Pick a day, any day. Move forward from it. Now when you cycle back to that day (or moment or month or whatever) identify how much you have grown, what you have accomplished, and where you are. Now you have measured your mark (by whatever metrics make sense). Now rinse, repeat and move forward.
January 19, 2023
A process is meant for a group of people to start doing something a particular way. When a group of people follows the same thing, the group becomes more efficient. Process gets a bad rap because the image of a hammer is immediately crystalized in our minds. If everyone logs bugs in a different way that becomes hard to track, eventually the way that works for the team becomes the template, and the steps become the workflow that becomes the process. A good process helps teams get past the stuff that is not their job and lets them focus on
January 18, 2023
If you’re starting a new role and unsure of it, the best thing to do is ask what you should be doing. If you’re given a list of 15 things you should be doing now, this instance, this moment realizes that can’t happen – so rank them and pick the top 5. Of those Top 5 identify what you need to do be good at them, how much do you need to put into them, what do you need from others, are there extra resources you’ll require – keep asking yourself questions until you’ve feel like you’ve asked all you
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Greg Thomas
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