Articles for category: Leadership

December 24, 2023

Greg Thomas

Last Chance

The day before the product goes out the door is the last chance you have to fit that last UX bug in. The last chance you have to make a simple update to the documentation. The last time chance you have to get it “right”. All these last changes, generally end in disaster, you miss a space, you break the build, it makes it worse than you thought. And you’re left with it being worse than what it was before. The last chance was two weeks ago, you knew it then, you know it now, so don’t muck with what

December 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Ideas Need Leadership

Otherwise, they never go anywhere. They stay on the ground, hoping to become something else, but they never go anywhere. Someone needs to pick it up, run with it, and hold onto it when the going gets rough – because that’s when it needs to be held onto the most.

December 3, 2023

Greg Thomas

What do you bring to your team?

Answers should not include… “I do this…” “I’m the best at this…” “My job is X…” “Only I can do that…” “I run this…” “I monitor that…” “I’m backup for Y…” What do you bring, not what you are, what do you bring to the team?

December 2, 2023

Greg Thomas

Something Happened, but I did nothing

So I should continue doing nothing?  If something happened when I did nothing why I should engage in more activity to do something? It’s a waste and effort of energy and what if nothing happens from me doing something, now I’ve spent all that time and gone nowhere. Confused? This is the circle of confusion where you are trying to convince yourself to do or to not do something.  You can wrap yourself up in circles until you have convinced yourself a myriad of ways that this is the way to go and you are on the right path, even

December 1, 2023

Greg Thomas

You Don’t Have to Do it All

When it comes to being a part of a team, we all buy into wanting the team to succeed. Why not?  It’s why we’re there. At some point, the workload becomes too much (it always does) and the team struggles to find new paths for efficiencies and growth.  It doesn’t happen quickly, they have to flounder and fight against the current because they are now not only fighting against what is ingrained within them but also the past successes of the team. Everyone is struggling, everyone is working to get there, but the clicking moments aren’t happening as quickly as

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