Articles for category: Leadership

November 6, 2015

Greg Thomas

Leadership does not happen all at once

We like things to come fast, done in a day, home for dinner, sitting by the fire, reading our book. Job well done. Some tasks can follow this pattern, some tasks can be done in a day, leadership is not one of those tasks and there is no grand event that dictates that you are now a leader. Managers get up in front of their team and tell them where they are going to go, Leaders get up in front of their team and take them on the journey of where they are going.  That journey does not happen overnight, it

October 23, 2015

Greg Thomas

Words I Strongly Dislike

Employee a person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level. I strongly dislike this word, it is one of the few words that I go out of my way to use (BTW this definition is taken straight from Google).  If I am about to type it, I delete it and find another word to use; users, members, team, people, something, anything. It takes away all other aspects of someone wanting to work with you, as though the only reason they are working with you is because they can monetary compensation.  The best part of this definition is the delineation

October 21, 2015

Greg Thomas

Measure the Mark

Each year, I take stock of where I was one year ago and what I accomplished in that time. This servers to answer a number of questions; Have I grown as person? Have I challenged myself? Am I proud with how I have conducted myself with others? Was everything I accomplished worth the sacrifice to other areas?  Did I choose wisely? Am I on the right path to what I want to accomplish? For everyone one of these questions, the follow-up is the always the same – “If not, why not?” – why am I not being challenged, why did I

October 18, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Waffle Project

We’ve all been on “that” project, the one that is plagued with problems, the one that you’ve been on for 6 months and you can’t seem to the team motivated on. It’s not a problem with the team or the purpose, somewhere it just waffled into what is today – people are doing things but it’s not really going anywhere.  No one wants to set an end date to walk a way from it, it just keeps going – taking on new features, working through bugs, trudging along. Ask anyone and no one wants to part of the Waffle Project –

October 17, 2015

Greg Thomas

The Anatomy of a Complaint

A complaint always comes to you in a few ways – in most cases it is either very loud (i.e., an explosion in a meeting) or very soft (i.e., someone coming into your office, slumping down in their chair, feeling dejected). Whichever the case I’m constantly amazed at the overall contrast between the need for people to make the complaint vs the desire to do something about it.  These are two very different things and they originate from the above – getting it out – feeling like you have unloaded and/or transferred it to someone else which creates this initial bit

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