Articles for category: Leadership

January 5, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Burnout Watch

Big deadlines, and big deliveries, no matter the level of planning you do, will always require some extra effort. There is no way around it, irrespective of the field you are in, that extra push always needs to happen. You hope for it to be a week, but then a week turns to 2 and then into a month. This is where your team needs your leadership, your guidance, and your experience to know when 1 turns into 2 that things are going to change, that you might need to pump the brakes, that you might have to set rest

December 17, 2024

Greg Thomas

Jump In

If it’s not organized, organize it. If the current code doesn’t work, fix it. If the words don’t fit, rewrite them. If the team is suffering, get them together, and figure it out. If you see the problem, jump in. You don’t have to have all the answers or the final solution. You do have to be willing to take that first leap to make the change happen. Otherwise, sit, complain, stew, grumble, sulk – resolve yourself to do that instead (but you can do better).

December 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

Building the Team’s Trust

You don’t just start trusting each other. It’s not something that happens on the first, second, thirtieth, or seven thousandth day. It just happens. It happens when the team has put in the daily bits to make it happen. It happens when the team has put in the effort to get there. It happens when the team has committed to the result, irrespective of the costs. Don’t force it, guide it, support it, then it will happen.

December 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

Buying Tools

Tools are great for making tasks you know and understand go faster. I.e., I know how to use a screwdriver, a drill is much faster, and the purpose of the drill is to make holes and screw in screws faster. I know the problem, I have the solution. However, if you are buying a tool that you “think” will solve a problem, but doesn’t really and adds a lot of overhead to what you are doing – it’s not going to help you. In our simplistic example above, I could buy a hammer drill (not great for screwing things in,

December 6, 2024

Greg Thomas

Learning Perspective

I’ve been spending a lot of time the last little while, learning perspective in drawing. First off, it’s a crazy number of lines.  I mean, there are lines everywhere and you wonder how anything you create is going to turn out. But then, once you’ve designed the grid, laid it out, put it together, and start adding your own components on top of it. Then the value of all those little lines comes together and becomes something. All that work to establish the layout, to understand what each position does – it’s truly amazing. And then you’ve finished creating your

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