Articles for category: Leadership

August 15, 2023

Greg Thomas

New Teams

Joining a new team is never easy. You don’t know all the “things” and “isms” that make the team work (or are holding them back). Whether it is formal or informal, the new team is always waiting for one thing to happen – the leader to emerge – not to assert their dominance or mastery, but the one that helps out team members, that leads by example, listens, takes their lumps, does the grunt work and pushes on. The Leader might not be the one first appointed, but they are there, somewhere, perhaps even you, just waiting to emerge.

August 12, 2023

Greg Thomas

Building the Bench

The bench does not get built overnight. Building your leadership team takes time. It takes thought, on both sides, those putting out the offerings, and those receiving them. Our natural inclination is to rush in and build a team as quickly as we can, but this will always fail as quickly as we started. Take the time, find the right people, talk to them, build the bench you need for today and tomorrow.

August 11, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Emergence of Delivery Teams

I’ve started to see more and more articles cropping up on delivery teams.  I have yet to write my own but this is great to see.  I’ve been using the term for a few years now as I’ve worked with more and more teams on the software delivery front. The idea for it came from the idea that it takes multiple roles to deliver a software solution, in a small company those roles can overlap and be handled by multiple people yet are always critical to the overall delivery – i.e., none can be missed. But at the heart of

August 5, 2023

Greg Thomas

Pick Where You Lead

You can’t lead everywhere, you can’t lead everything if you try you will fail. Pick where you are strong at, pick what you want to learn more of, pick where you want to focus – add any additional pick criteria that work for you. But make sure you pick. The leader that doesn’t pick, that ignores the need to pick, becomes the leader that chose to lead everywhere and missed the point.

August 4, 2023

Greg Thomas

The Stress of What Doesn’t Work

Not everything in your team will work.  You will encounter challenges inside and outside of what you do that you cannot avoid that are part of the job. Making them your focus, takes away from everything else you are trying to accomplish, where you can make change and create good work. You can’t ignore it, you’re going to have to figure out what is broken, but you can’t make it your one focus, ignoring everything else, simply because it’s not working right.

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