Articles for category: Leadership

March 15, 2021

Greg Thomas

Burnout and Breakers

When there is too much power coming into one wire (outlet or breaker), it causes an overload and trips the switch. To get things running again, you need to manually go to the electrical box, find the offending breaker (which is generally coloured orange so you can find it easily enough) and flip it back on so it can start taking power again. Generally, before you do this, you probably want to unplug a few things, so the next time you restart it, it doesn’t trip again. Otherwise, it’s only a short matter of time until it trips and you’re

March 13, 2021

Greg Thomas

Building Communities

On one of our most recent episodes of Remotely Prepared we spoke with Bekah Hawrot Weigel on the importance of creating Communities and all she has done with her developer community VirtualCoffeeIO. Bekah has a great story to share on all that she has worked through during the Pandemic, going remote, being there for her family and on top of all of that – building an incredible community loved and used by Developers all over the world. Take a listen. https://www.upsidedownoffice.com/podcast/building-community-with-bekah-hawrot-weigel

March 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

Replicating the Office Experience

You can’t replicate what you did before in the office. Running into people in the hallway. Chatting in the lunchroom. Picking up someone who is stuck on a bug by buying them a coffee. Having a random, yet project altering conversation about whatever it is you are working on that started off with a conversation about what font we are using. All those things are not going to happen the way they used to. They can still happen, but we need to find the different ways, the new ways to make them work. We’re redrawing our neural pathways daily to

March 7, 2021

Greg Thomas

Good Enough?

I heard this line in a recent promotion for a new show on HBO, I’m paraphrasing here but it went something like this… There are Expectations for me to be something that I’m not good enough to be. When we question what we are working on or what we are doing, how often do we feel that way? Is that the root of being considered an Impostor or not “good enough” to do this work at hand? Is this what roils the confusion and frustration within us? I don’t know, all I know is this quote has me thinking about

March 5, 2021

Greg Thomas

How do you Show Up?

Do you come prepared for meetings? Are you always late to ZOOM calls? Does your work get pushed out from sprint to sprint? Do you ignore the big problems hoping go away? Do you appear with unbridled positivity? Do you take feedback or only seek validation? How you show up, how you present who you are to people, is how you will be seen. If you are always unprepared for meetings, showing up late and derailing meetings, you probably won’t get asked back – that’s how you decided to show up that day – maybe there was a reason, but

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