Articles for category: Leadership

September 8, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Forwarder 2.0

There was a time when I believed that the Forwarder was an email client (or rather a person behind an email client) that would read and email forward it to someone else with the tagline – “FYI”. This FYI represented so much ambiguity that it made you question; What am I being asked to do? Do I need to respond to this? Do I read it and move on with my day? Do I get involved? But now I have seen the evolution of the Forwarder 2.0 in a remote world. They hear the conversations being had in the meeting

September 5, 2020

Greg Thomas

Meeting Rooms are Everywhere

The amount of meetings you used to have, were constrained by the physical limitations around you. Startups are, generally, in smaller places, so they start off with smaller and less meetings. They simply can’t have meetings all the time because if they did, they’d be having them on Tim’s desk or besides Sales when they are on a call. Instead they are informal. When a startup gets a dedicated meeting room, meetings ramp up and the place is “busy” because now we people have an official place to congregate and discuss “things”. If you were to place that small little

September 3, 2020

Greg Thomas

Book Publishing in a Pandemic

I’m loving the conversations we are having as part of the Remotely Prepared Podcast. One of our latest interviews is with Jesse Finkelstein of Page Two Publishing where she talks about the state of book publishing in the middle of a pandemic and how they are supporting not only their team, but their authors throughout the process. It’s a great example of community at it’s finest. The full episode is here.

August 31, 2020

Greg Thomas

Lead Them Through It

Your team isn’t always going to know how to get out of a problem. Depending on the scope, they aren’t going to know the protocols to be observed, the people to talk to, the process to follow, the emails to be sent, the flags to be raised, etc, etc. That’s your job. Depending on the severity, you might want to hope it all goes away but we all know it won’t. Not without you. This is where the hard work begins, this is where your team needs you to rise up and lead them out of this mess. It’s not

August 20, 2020

Greg Thomas

You should be Angry for Your Team

It’s good to get mad for your team. To fight for them when they are being asked to work that third weekend of overtime to get the product out the door. To fight for them in their performance and salary reviews. To fight for them to get the training they need to keep being the great executing team they are. It’s good to get angry for your team and fight for them. Not every day, not every meeting. It’s good to do this because we get angry for the things we love when we sense an injustice is being committed

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