Articles for category: Leadership

May 9, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Critical Post

  Someone isn’t going to like how you coded that interface today. The latest chapter of your book is going to be ripped apart for the plethora of grammar errors running through it. What you thought was a good document, will be dissected and discarded. All that studying you put in, was on the wrong chapter. Your email etiquette just didn’t make the cut today. Years of slaving away on that product was torn apart by one of our trial sites and shared with everyone. Each time you went to kick the ball, someone told you to do it a completely different

May 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

Something is going to go Wrong

Something is going to go wrong today. Code will break. Builds will fail. Customers will flood the lines. Your website will go down. Someone will leave. You’ll lose your presentation. Someone will take your idea. Maybe not in the same realm of the above, but something will go wrong today, it will not go as planned. So – is now a good time to throw it all out the window?  If you can’t have the perfect day then forget it and toss it to the yard? Yeah, not everything is going to go your way and the day might end

May 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

Leaving is Personal

When someone leaves your team, your organization, your whatever – it’s not business, it’s personal – there said it. But not for the reason that you think. If you’ve ever had this happen to you, you know the feeling inside that you can’t shake for the next two weeks and for all the times thereafter.  I can name all the people that have left while they were on my team.  I can tell you exactly how they each did it and what went through at my mind the instant they approached me, the instant in which they told me and

May 3, 2016

Greg Thomas

Hire Someone Better

But, but, but what about my ego? Really, we’re still worrying about your ego? Look, if you really want to make sure that for the rest of eternity, in your world, you are and always will be the Top Dog then please continue to do the following; Ask the most edge case questions in an interview that no one would ever know just so you can feel smarter. Filter out people who give you that pang in your stomach because you now know, you would need to step up your game. Instead of focussing on what you are good at,

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

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