Articles for category: Initiative

October 14, 2021

Greg Thomas

Finding a New Room

When everyone was together at the office, we would use the expression – “Let’s get in a room and figure this out”. But there are no rooms, they are all closed up. If you’re a company that is now “remote first” you won’t have these rooms again. But this phase still matters – “Getting into a room and figuring this out”. This is why you need to find a new room to capture the same message and evoke the same feelings you used to have when you were on site, together and you could do this. This is what your

October 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Are you Right for it?

There are jobs we have that we are not right for. We have all had roles that we were completely mismatched for – you might have thought it was the thing you’d been dying for, but in reality, you were catfished and now you’re doing something completely different. Even still you might have a job you were hired for with a title you aspire to be, but what you are doing is nowhere near what you actually signed up to do. Were you miscast? Did you do it for money? For fame? For the title? Whatever it was or is,

October 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Make the Call to Fix the Real Problem

Years ago, I was building a new deck, and there was a curve in the wood. It wasn’t perfect, it was pretty obvious and in my inexperience, I thought we could cover it up with deck boards. I was wrong, it would have looked horrible. Thankfully I had my father-in-law to set me straight. We then proceeded the next 2 hours unscrewing it, hammering, jacking it, doing whatever we could to gain leverage and bend that curve. By the time we were done, it looked 1000% better and the final result would not have been as good if we didn’t

October 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Team State Engines

Your team deserves to know what the plan is for the next year. They deserve to know what is coming next and what the plans are. They should know when the unknowns are coming at them and they are going to have to pivot and figure the rest out. They should know what the goals are and where you want to take them. Your team is an engine (huge difference from a factory) and if they don’t know what they should be doing when, how they work together or what they are going to need to do to handle the

October 4, 2021

Greg Thomas

End of the Code

I don’t mind the no code movement. But code will never go away. That’s not some kind of die-hard statement on the future of no-code – it will succeed and bring its platform to the masses. But someone is going to have to write all that code. And that’s going to be a lot of fun.

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