Articles for category: Leadership

January 30, 2017

Greg Thomas

Recipe for Startup Passion Juice

Very easy to make… Take one part knowledge. Two parts will. Four parts ability to grind. Three parts desire to fail and try, fail and try, fail and try again. One part Entrepreneurial know-how (adds some flavour, but okay if you don’t have to start) Seven parts positive outlook. Six parts humble pie. Mix together in a haphazard fashion, drink from a monster cup which is promptly slammed on the table when emptied dry and welcome to a new day. Passion isn’t a thing you learn or get or find – it’s something you do and find by never giving

January 25, 2017

Greg Thomas

Are you too far gone?

This is a very hard question to ask of yourself and of others. It generally arises when your motivation has dipped, the projects have lost their lustre and you feel you are doing more grinding and “going through the motions” than you should be. But you want to get better, you want to improve and you want to be there. So the question you have to ask yourself is whether you are too far gone. I write this having been in this spot a few times in my career, we all get there, no need to deny it, but when

January 20, 2017

Greg Thomas

The Team Roadtrip

If you lead a team and have not gone with your team on any of the following; Conference Customer Meeting On-Site Deployment Sales Presentation Something, anything, where you and members of your team worked hard towards a common goal that is now resulting in a trip somewhere. You owe it to them to find a way to get them there with you for any and all of the reasons below (choose whichever ones help); Watch what a developer does when asked a tough sales question Stay up late and fix a customer’s system Wake up early to setup your booth for the

January 16, 2017

Greg Thomas

Guided Leadership

Too often we confuse the lofty goals of leadership with success and forget why we are really there. We don’t have all the answers. We don’t know which direction is best We don’t know what will happen next. With all those unknowns in front of you, it’s easy to feel worried, afraid and unsure of what happens next and how are we to “really help people”. And, it’s in those moments that you realize that you are not leading them because you are the best, the smartest, the greatest that ever was but instead that you are guiding your team with

January 12, 2017

Greg Thomas

Before you Post that next Hire

Team growth is not about scaling out, it’s about scaling up. It’s about getting smarter, faster and better. It’s about raising your team’s game from where it is, to where you know it can be without trying to wring out blood from a stone (i.e., it’s not about extra hours). Before you post that next job posting to grow your team, ask yourself the following questions; Are we doing things as best as we can? What can we do with what we have? What is holding us back? What tools or training would help us scale up faster? What should

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