Articles for category: Leadership

June 15, 2016

Greg Thomas

You have to Give to Get

It would be great if everything you needed came to you with no strings attached. Even better, what if every agreement or technical discussion went your way. If you want to manage, don’t give to get, demand it… eventually you’ll get it. If you want to lead, you’re going to have to give, something, maybe not today or tomorrow but at some point you are going to have to give something to your team, some other team, the person struggling beside you.  And it won’t be labelled – “here this is the right thing to do now” – but when

June 13, 2016

Greg Thomas

How long to wait for a Promotion?

Who said you had to wait? Take on something else. Volunteer for assignments. Branch out into something you haven’t done before in your spare time and then apply it to work. Watch a course. The daily grind of grunt work holding you back?  Than starting grinding daily on how to get rid of the old grunt work and create new work – automate it, break it out, eliminate it, combine it – you’re the expert – so go expertize it. The days of having the thoughts of someone having to die for you to be promoted or long gone (dead?) –

June 9, 2016

Greg Thomas

Navigating the Gray Area of Leadership

Team Leadership in any form is not black and white – every person on your team, project, group is different and in time you will identify the need to Navigate the Gray Area between the black and the white where a decision for one situation might not be able to be applied to the other. There are no steadfast rules for Navigating the Gray, only if you choose not to and seek to remain within the Black and the White. Leaders who don’t progress past their current position haven’t learned to Navigate the Gray, they know the Black and White

June 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Difference between a Team Lead and a Manager

Whether you are a Team Lead or a Manager you are now responsible for a group of people.  It doesn’t make a difference whether it’s one person or five, the level of responsibility that was not previously there is now there. At the end of the day, in the software sector, both roles will still rely on a deep passion for technology and creating innovative solutions to complex problem sets.  That’s a mouthful but how else would your describe the field of software development (especially if you were trying to recruit someone). Whenever I’ve compared these two positions I always

June 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

If someone asks you…

If someone asks you to slow down, it’s because they can’t go as fast you and keep up. If someone asks you to hold on, it’s because they aren’t ready for the next step. If someone asks you do the umpteenth review, it’s because they aren’t sure of the change that is coming. This is very different from. Someone asking for your help to get there… Someone asking you to show them the next step and how things come together… Someone asking you to explain it, draw it, whatever, but don’t go through the umpteenth review for them… Same scenarios, same problems,

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