Articles for category: Initiative

February 13, 2019

Greg Thomas

Get Yourself a Playbook

Playbook – A stock of tactics and methods to achieve an objective. Most commonly used in sports. Should be used more in business, software, everything. If you don’t have a go-to set of plays to win a client, keep them happy, deliver your project, grow your team, challenge them and yes, train yourself – than you and your team have no direction on what they should be doing and how they should be doing it. Playbooks aren’t perfect, they are proposed plans to accomplish something that have been designed outside the heat of the moment so that when things get

February 8, 2019

Greg Thomas

Waiting for Dissappointment

If you’re building up that long wait for your community, building that tension, that anticipation, that excitement with teasers, social media posts, behind the scenes views and on and on and on. You better make sure if lives up to the hype. If what you’re building isn’t going to live up to the hype, dial it down, put out the updates, keep them succinct and focussed. “We’re introducing some new features to better align our offering with our other products” Keep it short, simple, answer questions, maybe as it gets closer offer some more specifics. Case in point – for

February 6, 2019

Greg Thomas

Stop Browsing

You don’t need to check that news site one more time – nothing has changed – at least nothing worthwhile. If you’re in a rut or at a place where there is never enough to do, than it’s time for you to start figuring out how to get enough to do. That’s it. Make a Plan, stick to it, and stop spending the hours browsing news sites, watching YouTube or setting up your playlists. Focus your time on a project that gives you little to no time for browsing and leaves you feeling enriched. Making the Plan is the first

February 4, 2019

Greg Thomas

The Unchallenged Team

Will leave. They will lose interest. They will lose faith in your plans. They will not push themselves. They will start to look elsewhere. Find out what will challenge them, what will bring back the spark to ignite them and show them how they can grow and restore their faith. There is always time to turn around an under performing team, but you have to be willing to take the first step and challenge them.

January 31, 2019

Greg Thomas

Focus is Key, Adoption is Critical

Focus is big. Focus is important. Focus is what will keep you on the right path – whether it’s working with your team or shipping your product. Focus will get you there. But what happens after “it” gets there?  Switching to Agile? Introducing a change to your team structure? Putting out those new features in your product? That’s where Adoption comes in and Adoption is critical to your success.  The earlier you build Adoption into your focus, the sooner you’ll have your team, your customers buying into what is coming. Not only have you prepped them for what is coming

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