Articles for category: Initiative

September 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Remote Growth Challenge

Can you grow your team remotely? And I’m not talking physically – I’m talking about leadership, development skills, scale, empathy, learning. Did you grow your team remotely? Did they develop over the past year when they were all separate? They probably weren’t attending any conferences this year so what did you offer them instead? It’s good not to have answers to these questions, it’s bad to now not do anything about it. Set the goals for how you are going to grow your team this year, share it with them, get their feedback, and move forward. A plan, an idea

September 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

All Ideas No Work

If you aren’t going to do the work that comes with the idea. Then don’t propose the idea. You don’t have to do all the work, but you have to get it started, you have to kick it off, you have to lead it beyond an initial meeting. That first piece of work, that threat of work, is what holds so many ideas back from becoming the start of something great.

September 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

The 4 Day Work Week What?

There is a lot being discussed about 4-Day Work Weeks and I don’t want to spoil it. We took a hot take on it for Remotely Prepared – and yes – it was fun. I’m all in favour of 4-Day Work Weeks but I honestly have to wonder – why do we keep having to do all these studies? Just get it going and do it.

September 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Training Queue

Yes, I have a queue of training programs in my Udemy account and other places. Yes, I am behind. Yes, I am trying to chip away at that pile. Yes, I bought a bunch of them on sale. Yes, I was full of heart and ambition when I purchased them thinking I could do it all in two weeks. And Yes, I will get them. But that’s the beauty of a queue, you know what’s up next and can have something to look forward to, no matter how long it takes to get there. It used to be you had

September 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

How long to Design?

I struggle with this question quite often – how long will it take me to design an end-to-end, bulletproof, final solution? I don’t have an answer for this, I wish I did, but I don’t – sometimes I can design solutions quickly based on what I know of the platform, other times I’m stymied and I don’t know. Is it because I don’t know what I’m doing? Is it because I don’t want to commit to how long it’s going to take? I can design on the fly as I’m cranking out code, but I know whenever I finish, I’m

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