Articles for category: Leadership

August 31, 2021

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared – It’s About the People

This could have been the title for our recent episode with Simran Chaudhry but we went with “Invest in Your People”. I loved doing this interview not because it was a great chance to catch up with Sim or to do the recording from the beach but rather just to hear about all the small investments they are doing in their company and how it is paying off for them. Build a great team and the rest will follow. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/invest-in-your-people-with-simran-chaudhry-interview

August 29, 2021

Greg Thomas

The First 10 Minutes of Every Meeting

It’s yours. If you called the meeting, all eyes are on you. And they are waiting. For what you are going to say and what you are going to do. The first ten minutes are yours to set the direction and set the tone. If you are discussing numbers and dates, come with numbers and dates – don’t spend the first ten minutes searching for them. If you are discussing problems, come with the problem known (better yet send it out in advance). If you are discussing slippage in releases, come with reasons why it’s late. The first ten minutes

August 28, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Leadership Baseline

It’s a line, it’s a minimum, it’s the baseline for what you need to be successful. It’s where you are starting. It’s who you are as a leader and where you need to go. It is the starting point of the path you are going to take. It’s the basic level you are at. And it’s from here you will grow to become a better leader. But first, you have to know where you are starting from.

August 23, 2021

Greg Thomas

Bad Remote Decisions are Coming

As we start to crest the remote wave, hybrid offices, people staying remote, pay equity changes are starting to become the topics du jour. There is no more talk of New Normal or Now Normal, it’s now going to be about the “Next Normal”. And the Next Normal has the potential to take away all the great things that we have done with remote over the past year and make them hurt. A few things to remember when your team is working remotely; A green icon doesn’t mean they are actually present (or working) People should be paid what they

August 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

We Don’t Do It

Not sure when this commercial aired, but I think when it did I had just started working in software and recognized the discussion immediately. I had been on the side where someone was proposing a great idea, it had all this potential with bells and whistles that would make you drool. And then they said that we’d be doing the work or someone else would. My heart sank immediately – the people that knew what we should be doing – we’re not going to do it – but they were going to tell us what we were doing wrong and

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