Articles for category: Leadership

March 9, 2022

Greg Thomas

Software Leadership Series: Demo Day

I love doing demos, either attending or giving them.  I’ve written so much on them in the past; Plan Your Demos The Day after the Demo The Art of the Demo Demos Gonna Break Software Sales Demo are a Thing Reading those titles, I could still come up with more content to write on demos. This is why I’m always surprised to hear that someone doesn’t want to give a demo.  As a developer, the demo is the culmination of your work to show how you took words and made them into something tangible, how you took an idea and

March 8, 2022

Greg Thomas

How To Build a Great Team

I wrote this presentation and published it on Slideshare a number of years ago.  It was a fun look at the people, the personalities you need to make your team successful, and where leadership comes from. I did it around the time that the comic book movies were not as massive as they are today, but there are still few unknowns in there that might make you think. Here is the entire presentation – “How to Build a Great Team”.  

March 7, 2022

Greg Thomas

Gearing Up

We don’t wake up and are just ready to go and do something.  For an individual, it can be hard enough to get yourself going but for a team, it becomes multiplied by each individual’s personality, abilities, skills, and experience. Getting your team ready, pumped, on the same page (insert whatever other team you want to use here), I like “gearing up” is a task that you can’t do 5 minutes before the meeting. You need to think of; What do you want them to get out of it? What do you need to get out of it? What do

March 4, 2022

Greg Thomas

Think Like a Farmer

You can’t skip days being a farmer. If you want to sell food at the market in September, you need to till the soil in April, plant in May, water and tend throughout June and July, and pick in August. I most likely have some of the actions and durations mistaken, but you get the picture. You can’t show up in August and do all those things that you should have done months before and expect it to be as good as if you had followed the plan to build up to the big sale in September. Some vegetables would

March 3, 2022

Greg Thomas

Training On Your Own

Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working to get better. And it’s where we do our best work, value that effort the most and remember those lessons we learned when we did

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