Articles for category: Leadership

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

September 13, 2015

Greg Thomas

Making the Unpopular Call

There are times, when the unpopular call is the only call to make. However, it’s unpopular for a reason, because it most likely causes any of the following; The team wonders why we are making this change? It may work, it may not, you don’t know. It’s probably late in the game and something needs to give. Initially, it causes confusion and fear – why what did we do to get here, surely there is another option? To add to all of this, you are hearing it and feeling it while the call is being made.  It’s not the most popular call,

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