Articles for category: Leadership

April 28, 2016

Greg Thomas

What to look for in a Mentor

Tough topic, mentors, everyone (I think) wants one.  A guru of sage advice that probably resembles more Yoda then the Emperor.  I’ve read articles where people announced their mentors to the world and engaged them as a mentor early on in their careers even sought them out.  And still others who perhaps didn’t engage their mentor per se, but from afar read everything they had to offer, every book, post, tweet, etc and soaked it up like a sponge so they could never miss a beat. But what do we really look for? A listening ear. Advice for when things go

April 25, 2016

Greg Thomas

Team Leadership for the Kids

I was trying to describe to someone a few weeks ago what it means when you are leading a team while at the same time fielding questions on how you deal with scenarios that might arise.  In it’s most simplest forms you need to think of your team as your kids and if you’re the leader of that team, congratulations you are now a single parent. How does that translate into what you’re trying to do? Your kid is having trouble with their homework?  Are you going to fire them from 3rd grade?  Probably not, you’re going to put in the

April 14, 2016

Greg Thomas

Take a Step Back

How many times has the resolution to a problem come to you when you stepped back from a problem? Perhaps you did something else? Maybe you talked to someone about it? Or maybe it just sat there for 2 weeks until you went back to it? Did it work? So why not do it more often? Oh that’s right, the time crunch, where everything needs to be fixed yesterday and you don’t have time to Step Back and think about it. Or do you? We’re not saying months, weeks, days, hours because we don’t know.  Maybe stepping back is still within

April 13, 2016

Greg Thomas

Rapid Burnout

Definition the point at which your internal tank is empty and has nothing left to give.  No matter how much caffeine you put into your body, there is nothing left to give. Symptoms You find yourself unable to put in extra hours to accomplishing a particular task, diminishing returns is rampant in everything you are doing. Your Passion has drifted from where you could think of all the new things you wanted to do, to simply thinking about how you are going to get through this week. Nothing phases you – this is not the same as being calm, cool and collected, this

April 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Critical Assessment

Imagine all the work you put in over the course of a year to accomplish a project and ship a release, the hours upon hours of coding and testing to make something happen.  Think of all the beta releases and customer trials that you went through to make sure things worked. Now go back even further and envision this as the version 1.0 release where you are coming into an already populated field and there are so many features that simply need to be there, for the past few months you’ve heard the following phrases over and over again… “These

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