Articles for category: Leadership

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

March 31, 2016

Greg Thomas

Exercise Your Brain

You know that feeling you get after you haven’t worked out for awhile and your whole body is aching because it’s all like – “hey this is above and beyond our normal routine of getting up, going to work, sitting down, going home, watching something and going to bed” – routine. And maybe that is something you are doing some other activities during the day too – but you know the day I’m talking about – where you wakeup and go for the run in the morning and feel it the rest of the day kind of day. Yeah –

March 30, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Detractor

The Detractor isn’t a bad person to have on your team, they aren’t malicious per se, but they are 100% – a Distraction – where their main goal is to detract you from your goal. The Detractor has their own goals in mind, they are working towards something else that is separate from what the rest of the team is focussed on.  Towards the end of each meeting, when everyone has said their piece and is clear on the next step for the project they come back with – “one last thing” – that doesn’t align with the path of

March 17, 2016

Greg Thomas

Game Day

Break down the effort… Practice 3 times a week for the last 6 months. Close to 48+ hours of driving to and from tournaments. Playing in 30+ games. Who knows how many ice packs, bruises and strained muscles. Hours spent learning plays upon plays upon plays. All that effort, over the course of 6 months to qualify, to reach one set of games which will separate you from the rest of the pack.  One Tournament to rule them all (as they might say), one last chance to put the naysayers to rest and win something that very few do. Remember all

March 16, 2016

Greg Thomas

Renegade By Design

Renegade – traitor, deserter, betrayer, dissenter. Wow – much worse synonyms then I had originally thought when I started thinking about this, but alas there it is. I read those four words and I immediately think about the impact towards people of taking those actions but in thinking it up saw it as something completely different… Those who constantly break the status quo in search of something better (The Betrayer)? Those that can’t let the argument of “this is how it’s always been” stand without trying to find something different (The Dissenter) Those that choose to walk away from a

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