Articles for category: Leadership

June 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leading on Your First Day

When do you start leading? When are you ready? When will someone give you the role you so richly deserve? Guess what, there is no title called “Leader” (all by itself). There are different derivatives of it, but byitself? No. But that trait is inside of you on Day One, so Start on that Day. Pick up the trash. Help someone out. Lead by Example. Suggest a change. Show up on time. Listen to others. All these things are examples of people leading, do one thing each day and make it bigger each day – review someone’s code without being

June 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Your Team’s Core Values

In every team I lead, I try to isolate what our core values are. There are some values that go without saying that I carry with me. Tenets I think that every team should simply have; honesty, trust, open communication – these are always key for me. But beyond that, I always like to ask myself – “What kind of team do we want to be when we grow up?” – and from there I get into our values, what values matter and what do we need to add to the mix. I think about those questions and what answers

June 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Battle for Remote

Odd title, but it’s coming, you know it’s coming. At some point in the future you’ll receive an email that says – “Everyone back in, it’s time to go back to the way things were”. You know that mail is coming, and you know when it does you’re going to look at all you’ve accomplished and go – “but I like working remote”. I know myself, the first day I’m back in the car, stuck in traffic, I’m going to be wishing I was working from home. Before the “Greate Remote Experiment of 2020”, I worked a hybrid balance of

June 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

The Elephant in the Zoom

No way can I take credit for this phrase – but I love it. It comes from Wanda Haddock, a recent guest on Remotely Prepared where we talk about Scaling Startups Remotely. She talks about how we are all presence icons (dots) and heads in a square box talking to each other and gives out tips and tricks on what she does to keep audiences better engaged with one another. The complete Interview is available here.

June 6, 2021

Greg Thomas

Hard Conversations

Everone’s tired. Everyone has something going on that you don’t know about. But ignoring those hard conversations and those hard questions will only make things worst, will only cause distrress and confusion amongst your team in the short-run and long-run. I’m reminded of the interview we had with Heather Caudill a few months ago on Remotely Prepared where she talked about the need for these conversations and what value has come from initiating them and having them with her team. It’s worth a second (maybe even third) listen if you haven’t heard it already.

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