Articles for category: Leadership

September 27, 2024

Greg Thomas

Delaying Leadership

This is different from Delayed Leadership. Delaying Leadership is when you know there is a need, you know there is a problem, and you can’t put your finger on it, but something is broken somehow, somewhere and your team needs help. But, this involves change, it requires a grinding of the gears, a breaking of things that are, and acknowledging that something different has to be done. So we actively work to delay any changes to leadership because that’s easier than identifying that there is a problem and doing the hard work to fix it.

September 26, 2024

Greg Thomas

Delayed Leadership

Delayed Leadership occurs when there is no leader, and a gap emerges from the time leadership was needed to the time someone stepped up to do the job. Perhaps it was the time it took to find the right person but more likely, it was the acceptance that we needed someone to have Leadership, to recognize we had a problem that led to the initiative of Leadership occurring. The former gets you on the right path sooner, the latter is a painful exercise in trying to convince ourselves that we’re okay, when we’re not until it’s absolutely too late to

September 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Unknowable Route

There is a path, you haven’t been on it before, others have, to you it’s unknowable. It’s not the way you would do it. It’s not how you would word it. It goes against how you’ve done things in the past. It flips the script. All these reasons and more… are the reason you need to do it. The Unknowable Route is the one where you don’t know how things will turn out, where you don’t know what will happen, where you don’t know the outcome.  You forgot what that feels like because you never had anything to compare it

September 8, 2024

Greg Thomas

Growing your Team

Teams grow based on numbers, skills, and deliverables. They don’t grow overnight. It doesn’t happen over an interview. The first time you meet, you are not a team, you are a group project, thrown together to see what you do. It’s your first deliverable that makes you a team and starts your path to growth – what next, what else can we accomplish, who else do we need, what do we do next – these are what will help you grow. And it starts with asking yourself – what is my team’s plan to grow?

August 29, 2024

Greg Thomas

About Standards

If you’re going to ask your team to implement a set of standards, there are a few points to consider. Are you writing them or asking them to be written? Will you be following what is written? What value will they create? Do they simplify or complicate your team’s life? Of all these items to consider, if you, as the leader, are not willing to follow these standards, then you shouldn’t be asking for them to be written. Your team takes their cues from you. It can be good to delegate the creation of tasks to get different people’s inputs,

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