Articles for category: Leadership

May 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

How to ask for Software Feedback

The easy way is to put a popup in someone’s face after they have completed working on a task. You probably won’t get the best response (especially if the task they just completed didn’t work the way they expected). It’s also not best to ask immediately after they log in (they did after all just start working and probably haven’t got to anything). Also, don’t call them from some random 800 number, everyone ignores those now. Popup chat is also not great when they are in the middle of an outage. If you want people’s feedback, if you want their

May 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

Building the Team

Teams are about picking the right people. Not always the best, but the right. With the right people, the team can do anything. With the wrong, they will never rise above where they are. What goes into being the right people – so much, and it’s different wherever you go but at its core – they have to be willing to change, to grow, to know when to lead and when to team and lastly they have to want to be there – from there, you can teach them anything.

May 1, 2024

Greg Thomas

Again, this time with Feeling

The hardest part, in any endeavor, is getting knocked down and getting back. But of course, you need to get back up with the same feelings you had before; Optimism Caring Happiness Enthusiasm You have to shed all the other emotions that have overshadowed it and do it again, same effort, same original feelings – not easy.

April 14, 2024

Greg Thomas

Lead Yourself before Leading Others

You can’t ask for others that which you would not ask of yourself. You can’t have expectations of others if you do not have those expectations of yourself. If you want everyone to be happy, then you will need to be happy yourself.  If it’s not the environment for you to be happy, then that tells you something. The bar gets set when you set it and when you keep raising it. But it’s never for others to do, it starts with you.    

March 20, 2024

Greg Thomas

Finish Strong

You can start hard at the beginning, going, moving, taking hits, figuring what does and doesn’t work. You can falter in the middle, taking stumbles, the hits adding up, the confusion and frustration seeping through. But you always, always, finish strong, always giving your last push with everything you have.

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