Articles for category: Leadership

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

November 12, 2015

Greg Thomas

You are Only as Good as Your Last Release

Ouch – did that hurt? Did it strike a nerve and make you twinge at what you are currently working on? Maybe feel a pang of failure in your stomach? Good. You can’t rest on laurels that you achieved, months and years ago, you can only focus on the next ones.  If you were to leave your job today, most would remember you for what you were working on at that point in time and not all the incredibly amazing super awesome things you have done. The last thing you ever… ever… want to hear a customer say is “Version

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

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