Articles for category: Leadership

April 7, 2020

Greg Thomas

Establishing Remote Connections

Where you thought you had a connection with someone before, that connection might now be gone. In working with your peers, not everyone is going to want to work on video, not everyone is going to have perfect internet and not everyone will be flourishing working from their dining room table. You are going to need to establish new connections, new ideas and new patterns if you are going to get through us. No one said delivering this way would be easy, but no said it wouldn’t be possible. Those that find change hard will struggle the most, that’s where

March 30, 2020

Greg Thomas

Take a Break

I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do something that wastes an insurmountable amount of time if it gives you the break you need to get back in the game. That’s what breaks

March 26, 2020

Greg Thomas

Focus

It’s getting harder to maintain our focus on what needs to be done vs what is happening all around us. We are being torn in fifteen different directions at once with everything breaking at the same time. Our initial reaction is and always will be to yell out – “Hold on, let me think about this.” – but we don’t have that luxury around us. It reminds me of a release that is going sideways, customers are calling because things are breaking, vendors are calling because software is failing, managers are angry because it went out the door – there

March 25, 2020

Greg Thomas

Stay Still

With all that is happening in the world around us, everything is being affected, even our daily discourse and what we write about. Staying still is very hard to do. Our parents have been trying to get us to do it since we were kids – “Sit Down, Stay Still, Don’t Move!” How long did you last? Not long I imagine, I sure didn’t. But now we are having to stay still for a different reason, one that not only affects us but those around you. It’s hard, but if you think of those around you, it gets easier. Code

March 19, 2020

Greg Thomas

The Roles in a Team

We can’t all be leaders on the same team, it doesn’t work. Everyone would be suggesting their own approach and we would get nowhere. We need skills, we need people who can get things done, others that focus on short-term and long-term goals. We need people who are working with other teams and coordinating efforts and we need people who are on the bench ready to jump in when the moment arises. That’s what a team does, that’s what happens when you form teams within your community to support each other and what you put them together, you build a

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