Articles for category: Leadership

December 30, 2015

Greg Thomas

Letting People Fail

I’ve written about Failure a number of times – The True Cost of Failure and Insulating the Failure – and let’s be honest, so have many, many, many other people. Some of my most spectacular failures were not the ones where I was up late at night coding by brains away trying to figure out some new problemset or use some new language – “Okay, so that’s what happens when you take up all the memory”.  No they were the ones where mine, the team, maybe the company’s back was up against the wall and I had to figure out things on

December 24, 2015

Greg Thomas

Understanding the One on One

In any training there is always that one amazing point that you take from it that blows your mind… Why have I not been doing this for years? It was right in front of me all along. That makes total and complete sense. For me, this was years ago when I had just become a Software Manager and the suggestion that I have One on One meetings with my team every month to see how things were going. Shocking… But there it was, the replacement for quarterly reviews that would across as a surprise, the time to have each member of

December 21, 2015

Greg Thomas

Would vs Will

I love it when someone says “I will do this” – that word “will” – it say so much about what someone is going to do; They have passion and fortitude to get something done. They are making a promise to finish something. They have committed to make this “thing” a reality. They have taken on the ownership to make this happen. When I hear someone say that word, you can immediately look up to them and see that fire burning in their eyes – no further discussion is needed – it’s great. Where does would come in? Would originates

December 18, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Day After the Big Event

Call it whatever you want, but let’s narrow it down to this little Indie film that opened up yesterday. The hype has been growing since the release date was announced, tickets were purchased well in advance, days were planned around this moment, people have stood in line for weeks waiting for entrance, tools have been made to block spoilers. And now… … it’s passed. Was the hype worth it? Was it as good as you hoped? Did you leave the theatre satisfied? Would you want it go on for another 2 hours or days or weeks? The day after any huge event, there

December 16, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Wedge

The Wedge is a mythical concept that sometimes emerges on your team or in your project, always in the form of a person.  It’s appearance can vary  between the starting calm of a project or the maelstrom of a delivery gone awry.  Whichever the case the damage can be far reaching. The one that complains about the smallest issues, making mountains out of mole hills on a daily basis. The one that disrupts others workspaces and efforts to complete work with a constant stream of inane chatter or actions that seek to disrupt. The one that throws up roadblocks to

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