Articles for category: Leadership

October 3, 2017

Greg Thomas

I’ll Know it when I see it

No you won’t. You’ll simply have eliminated a set of options from a myriad of choices that are in front of you. The only result from this strategy will be the continued infusion of frustration and confusion into the minds of your team as they try to hit some goal that no one knows exists, not even you. People who are “busy” use this term to great extent as a smokescreen to what they are looking for being some unearthly desire. The better approach, take an hour, by yourself, think, focus and come up with a few options of what

September 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

Play the Player or the Game?

There is a lot written about whether you should play the game or the player you are playing against. You see it in many sports games, where a player realizes the instant that they can’t win the game, so they start playing the player. Here’s the thing, when you play the player, you are no longer playing the game, you’re playing something else completely different, but it’s not the game. If you can’t beat them at the game you are in, create a new one that they don’t know they are in. This can work, this can be a strategy.

September 19, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Mercy Rule

However implemented, it’s a rule to enforce that one team does not lose by a substantial amount to another team. I’ve seen this implemented over the years in fashion. The worst way I have seen it implemented is when the team with the larger score, takes members of their team off the field. Why is this the wrong way? Invariably, the mismatch is not by numbers but by skill so there is a good chance the other team will score again. You are blatantly saying to the other team – “we can beat you with less” or rather “less of

September 12, 2017

Greg Thomas

How To Start Leading a Team

Meet with your team. Spend an hour with each person. Get to know them. Understand what makes them produce all the great work that they do. Understand what ticks them off. Rinse and Repeat with every person on your team. Once you’ve done that, come up with a plan that addresses their weaknesses and leverages their strengths. If you have yet to do this, do it now. It’s not a question of you should be doing this, it’s a question that you must.

September 6, 2017

Greg Thomas

Hope that they leap over you

When you hire a new person for your team, you always want to have that little voice inside your head saying – “I think this person can be better me”. If you do, hire them. If you don’t, don’t hire them. As a Leader, your job is to make sure that every person leaps over you, maybe switching groups, taking on new projects, leaving the organization, whatever it is. You always want people that can have the ability to surpass you. For the one reason – that no matter where they land, no matter where you land – you will

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