Articles for category: Leadership

January 16, 2024

Greg Thomas

What happen to the Ad-hoc Meeting?

You used to be able to talk with someone and realize the conversation is going to go longer and realize there was a need to have an ad-hoc 2-hour meeting to map out everything that was happening. You never came out of that thinking – “that was a waste of time”. The value of ad-hoc meetings is that they are instantiated at the time a problem is discovered – “Hey we need to chat” – “Yes we do”. The duration of the meeting is dictated by the problem and its resolution, not the clock. The power of the Ad-hoc Meeting

January 12, 2024

Greg Thomas

The Leader’s Challenge

The Challenge of any Leader is to lead the team today with an eye on tomorrow. You’re always leading a battle on two fronts – today and tomorrow – and it’s one that no one ever sees happening, but daily, it’s happening in your mind as you run through team personalities, external factors, changes in technologies, deadlines, and commitments. Everything and anything. The trap is getting stuck in today because of what might happen tomorrow (process paralysis) without knowing what might happen (changes in frameworks) and doing nothing today. Tickets don’t move, teams sit idle. But at the same time,

January 10, 2024

Greg Thomas

Your Meetings Lack Ambition

If your meeting is set up to simply “be there” and “discuss things”, your meeting will never amount to much. Meetings should have purpose, direction, creativity, and perseverance that roll themselves up into the ambition of what is trying to be achieved. You would code through the night to get your product out the door. You would work late into the evening to get the competitive analysis done before deciding what features to implement. You would grind out test cases to ensure the best quality product. Your meetings should have the same ambition that you do.

January 9, 2024

Greg Thomas

Directing the Narrative

Everyone has their own narrative, everyone has their own story they tell themselves. Their hopes, their dreams, their purpose, their direction. It’s all wound up in your narrative. The goal of a leader is to get everyone’s narrative on the same page, everyone focused on the same narrative, everyone bought into it, and everyone working towards it. Directing the narrative is the first step to getting your team moving in the same direction.

January 4, 2024

Greg Thomas

Why Attend a Bad Meeting?

You wouldn’t attend a bad movie (or you might start and then leave?) You wouldn’t go to a bad restaurant? You wouldn’t continue going to a bad store you’ve had a continually bad experience with? So why keep going to a bad meeting where you are getting nothing out of?  Where nothing good happens?  Where all you get is a another 5 minutes of your life back at the end?

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