Articles for category: Leadership

April 19, 2023

Greg Thomas

Being the Calm in the Storm

Yes, your release is late. Yes, the bugs are piling up. Yes, you have code that needs to go out the door. Yes, your chats are blowing up with everyone and anyone messaging you. Getting angry, chippy, or frustrated doesn’t help the problem and doesn’t help your team. Be the calm within the storm. The release will go out, the more bugs that are found the better the quality, your code will see the light of day and your chats will die down when you get over this hump. Lead your team through it.

April 16, 2023

Greg Thomas

Setbacks and Blowbacks

Setbacks are minor disruptions in our plans to try something new. Blowbacks are the unintended consequences when someone comes down on us because our plan didn’t work. Setbacks are not equal to Blowbacks. We have the choice to recover from Setbacks, Blowbacks we have no control over (so stop worrying about them).

April 10, 2023

Greg Thomas

Be Your Team Culture

Don’t talk about it. Don’t do a post on it. Don’t evangelize it. Don’t youtube it, instagram it, snap it, tiktok it. Definitely keep it off of LinkedIn. Just be it, live it every day, and embolden your path and those around you. Remind yourself every morning what it is, and hold yourself to that standard. You won’t get as many likes, you might not get people flocking to your job portals and it probably won’t make the news but it will matter to the people it needs to matter to the most – your team, and that’s all that

April 9, 2023

Greg Thomas

Are you Coachable?

We all say we are. But we aren’t. In some aspects we want to be coached, but only up to a certain level. And yet, when things go wrong the first thing we say is – “It’d be nice if I had someone helping me”. So what’s it going to be then?  Do you want to be coached so you never have to say that or do you want to keep saying you’re coachable but not letting it happen?

April 7, 2023

Greg Thomas

Forget the Optics

If you’re delivering your work and leading your team. Don’t worry about the things you miss. Focus on what it does and how your team is doing. You don’t need to have the flashiest presentation to look the best if you aren’t delivering anything behind it. The optics always take care of themselves.

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