Articles for category: Leadership

January 3, 2018

Greg Thomas

Don’t Forget that you are all in it Together

It’s easy to forget. You are working late at night, looking around the room and seeing only you. You are first one in, in the morning, looking at your IM list and seeing only you online. You post questions on your SLACK channel, that you later respond to. The frustration rises up inside of you as you can’t believe that no one else is around to help you when you need it and that you are doing everything else on your own. But you aren’t. Maybe no one knows the answers to your questions. Maybe the rest of the team

December 29, 2017

Greg Thomas

At the end of the Tunnel…

The greatest feeling of any project? The end is in sight, you can see the light. All the late nights and early mornings of coding and working are finally coming to fruition. Everything you planned for is progressing just as you expected it would. The planets are aligning. It’s the greatest feeling in the world. And at the same time, it’s always met with the same set of questions? “That’s it? We’re done?” To which the answer is “Yes”until you get on the next train headed for a new tunnel.

December 28, 2017

Greg Thomas

Rushing to Wrong

We are all very good at Rushing to the Wrong answer when trying to solve a problem. We throw details out the window and became blinded by the end goal and direction we want to go in. We are so close that we can “taste it” and know we are on the right path. But in our efforts to get there, and only when we get there, do we finally realize that we were chasing the wrong problem, going down the wrong path and had absolutely no idea what problem we were trying to solve. When you start with everyone

December 21, 2017

Greg Thomas

They won’t Change, So You’ll have To

How many times have you been in a meeting with someone venting about another team member or colleague? I mean venting, ranting, screaming, full of losing it. Only to have that person end the rant with – “this person will never change!”, So if they won’t change, why can’t you? If you had been expecting this other person to change and conform to your standards, why can’t you change and conform to theirs? No one’s stopping you, but you.

December 19, 2017

Greg Thomas

Internal Variables

Call it your worldview or framework, but what they really are, are your Internal Variables. The criteria that define what you, when you do it. They are your MAX_ACTION where you top out listening to someone complain about the same issue for the umpteenth time before moving on. They are your CURRENT_ATTEMPT where you are willing to keep doing something the old way before you realize there has to be a better way. They are your BOOL to realize that some answers are simply YES or No. And sometimes they are your open-ended variable that can hold anything and everything,

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