Articles for category: Leadership

August 25, 2017

Greg Thomas

When is there a Leadership problem?

It’s not before the project starts – that would be too upsetting to the team, let’s see how things get going first, we don’t want to slow things down? It’s not during the project – well the team is already working towards the next release, wouldn’t this slow them down? It’s not near the end of the project – well things could be doing better, we are late, but if we switched now wouldn’t this slow us down even more? So if it’s none of those times when would you recognize a problem with leadership? The fear of slowing things

August 23, 2017

Greg Thomas

Obi Wan – The Greatest Coach EVER?

I should have written this on May 4th (May the Fourth be With You) but thought of it while writing a recent MEDIUM article on why we all need to have a Coach. I started thinking of the traits of great coaches and for some reason came back to the Jedi Master himself, Obi Wan Kenobi. What makes Obi Wan Kenobi the greatest Jedi ever? He never gave Luke all the answers he wanted and made him work for them. He let Luke fail in preparing to be a Jedi, making similar mistakes to his own. He knew when the

August 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Turning Point in Leading Your Team

As a leader, you know there is much more work to accomplish than your time will permit. So does your team. If you’ve done things correctly in setting up and leading your team then you’ll know it when you are sitting down for your regular team meeting and you pull out the list of work to do, taking tasks for yourself only to have members of your team jump in and take them for you. “We need you to do this, we’ll take those tasks for you.” That’s the Turning Point when your team has become something much more, much

June 29, 2017

Greg Thomas

Problems without Context

Are like pilots without a license. Sure you’ll probably get there, but… Will you get there on time? Will you get there in one piece? Will it cost you less than an arm but more than a leg? Will you really know why you are going  there to begin with? Without context to a problem, we are hoping to solve an issues with an infinite number of variables.  But when we add context to the discussion, when we frame the scope and reach of the problem, the players involved (and the ones that need to be involved) the solutions we

June 23, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Team Failed

And what a great moment it was. What great flames of fury sprouted from the utter disaster that was your team’s crash landing when they tried to reach too high. Spectacular – this story will be told for years. It will be told for years because it will be the preamble to the greatest accomplishment your team will ever accomplish. Every team fails now and again, but the ones that are spectacular, that are borne from pure blood, sweat, effort, tears and commitment to the goal and each other – these are the failures that will manifest into the team’s

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