Articles for category: Initiative

February 26, 2022

Greg Thomas

Plan your Demos

I’m a big fan of doing demos on the fly.  Fire up the compiler, and show people what you’ve done. They are meant to be exciting, exhilarating and the best forum in the world to get feedback on how you are doing. Whether you plan it or not, you should always show up ready to go.  If you aren’t ready to go, push it off, an hour, a day (no more than a day) but deliver it. Tell the story of what you are building, show the value of what you’ve created. If you need to plan it out, go

February 24, 2022

Greg Thomas

How Many Accounts Do You Have?

Too many. Too many lurking around. Too many that I don’t log into but get random texts or emails from. Too many need to be cleaned up. Too many that I don’t even know still exist. Spring cleaning is coming early.

February 19, 2022

Greg Thomas

What We Don’t Know

This is the best way to start a meeting where no one knows what is happening or what the problem is. It sets the tone and gets people into the right mindset. It’s not about justifying your position. Assigning blame. Or analyzing what did or did not go wrong. It’s about getting everyone on the same page before deciding to move forward.

February 18, 2022

Greg Thomas

Team-Ups

When was the last time you worked with someone on your team that you’ve been dying to work with for a while on a special project? It doesn’t even have to be a special project, just some project. There are people that I have worked with where I never got this opportunity, I kept pushing it off, thinking it would happen way later in our careers but something came up -I left, they left, moved to separate teams, pick your reason. Don’t wait for the next great team-up to happen, go make it happen.  

February 14, 2022

Greg Thomas

Going from Zero to One Hundred

Whether you are restarting with an old team or starting with a new team – the last week of “things opening up” was probably stressful for you and your team. Not only that, how many times have we been through this before?  (I don’t want to count, but I know the number is lurking in the back of my head). You have a ton of things to catch up on, you have to motivate your team to get back into the swing of things on top of everything else they are struggling with. Know, that even though you need to

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