Articles for category: Leadership

April 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Weakest Member on your Team

It’s going to happen. One day, as you look through all the successes of your team, as you sit atop your plateau, you will start to wonder why you haven’t grown any further. Everyone else will be happy with your success, but something will be nagging at you, something will be tugging at you asking that question that you know is always there. Who is holding us back? Who is the weakest member of our team? It’s not an easy question to answer and conversely, no one wants to be asking it. When people are asked this question, the initial

April 4, 2018

Greg Thomas

I Braved the ______________

Call it Cold, Rain, Sun, Heat, Hail. But did you really “Brave” it? Did you pick up a sword and go fight it? Or did you put on a coat or some sunscreen? Cape Town is braving the weather, what they have to do next, that’s bravery. We’re not braving the weather, we’re simply living with it. Turn your tap off for a week if you’re confused about the difference.

March 22, 2018

Greg Thomas

The Clicking Moment

When you are coaching, mentoring, teaching or leading someone, the best moment is when it clicks. It’s the moment where all those hours, days, weeks, months and/or years of persistent effort, working side-by-side with one another finally pays off. Not with monetary gains, trophies, recognition, likes or posts. But with the acknowledgement that it finally “clicked”, it came together, it worked. And now you get to move onto something new. That’s the moment all leaders need to strive for with their team in fostering a culture of growth and development.

March 15, 2018

Greg Thomas

What should a Software Leader focus on?

Whether you’re a manager, lead, CTO, VP, Director or any other position that requires you to lead a team, the fundamentals of what is needed you are the same. People – my team, the team around me, what do they need from me, how do I support them? Product – what are we building, software for customers, software for our company, everything is a product? Partner – who do I work with, who do we depend on, are they internal teams that support us or external vendors that we leverage? Technology – what do we build on, what do I

March 9, 2018

Greg Thomas

Leading Up

And here you thought the hardest job you had when you started to lead a team was going to be the actual “Leading of the team”. Not always the case. Leading Up is the process by which you need to start managing your manager or their manager or someone else that you need to report to. Maybe they are causing dysfunction on your team with a myriad of requests. Maybe they don’t know how everyone works but expect it to be a different way. Maybe they have issues with your own leadership style because it differs from theirs. Whichever the

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