Articles for category: Leadership

December 4, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Final Straw

Conflict in the workplace is nothing new – there is always someone you are not going to get along with, not see eye to eye with, butt heads with, etc, etc.  We’ve all worked with those people that we think are coasting through the day, leaving their work to others to pick up and take on. There are two paths to handling this situation – either confront them about it and find ways to work with them to make it better or walk away. This isn’t about walking away – that’s easy, push your chair back from the table stand-up,

November 30, 2015

Greg Thomas

Selling Yourself

This is the last thing anybody wants to do, it’s not easy, its awkward and everyone always worries how they come off. But it’s a necessity to life – especially in technology. Whether it be to an interview, a performance review or meeting someone at a conference for the first time, at some point you are going to have to Sell Yourself… not for the sale… but for the you. Now this not about shilling the product you just spent 8 months working on, no this is about you the person having to show your team, your leader, your peers,

November 28, 2015

Greg Thomas

Becoming an Expert

It takes so much to become an expert in your chosen field… an immense amount of learning, practical application and intense focus.  It might also require you to push aside a number of other ventures at the same time so you can hone in on it and really develop your skill set. And in the end – you will still not be an expert – not because of your effort but just become it is impossible for someone to know everything about everything.  You might be an expert for an hour or a day, but then a few hours later

November 19, 2015

Greg Thomas

Watch your Drift

In a Virtual Machine Cluster, you are constantly turning servers on and off and sometimes those server images are remain off for a prolonged period of time.  When you bring them up you start to notice that they have drifted from the initial configuration and haven’t been “around” for all the changes that have taken place around them. Sometimes this happens in your professional life as well, you leave a project partway through only to come back and realize that things have drifted from their original goals.  Where you thought the direction the project was headed in, was not actually where it is

November 15, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Problem with Objectives

Objectives are a tricky thing… whether you’re receiving them or managing them… they aren’t an easy problem set… any day of the year.  I’ve been on both sides of the equation and see the arguments for one both sides and have been involved in a number of different programs over the years.  The one I always think back to was where people could be rewarded a few extra percentage points for “going above and beyond”.  The thing is, when those people went above and beyond, it was above and above and above and beyond and beyond and beyond, translation – they

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