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The Leaders You Need
1 day ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
2 days ago
Your Best Team Culture
6 days ago
A Blistering Pace
1 week ago
Get Out of the Way
1 week ago
Flying Cars
1 week ago
What Most Architecture Designs Miss
1 week ago
Where are we?
2 weeks ago
Team Events
2 weeks ago
Getting the Work Done
11 hours ago
Give them grace to make mistakes when they try their best. Give them space to try out new ideas even though you know it might fail. Give them a path that shows what they could become. Give them the tools to accomplish their goals and learn at the same time. Let them walk before they can run. When they put their hands on the stove, remind them it could burn. Raise them up when they are down. Don’t speak for them; let them and their work do that. These are the leaders we need, and they are also the leaders …
1 day ago
I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
Greg Thomas
I’ve been running a number of interviews lately, and I’m amazed at how everyone has some type of answer to a question. And sadly, in most cases they are wrong; they are bad answers, and if I’m feeling curious that day, I might keep poking and prodding to see how much I can make your AI hallucinate during the interview. The best candidate I interviewed over the past week asked to use a pencil and paper to draw out the problem and answered a few questions with “I don’t know”. Everything else was solid; he didn’t know it all. No …
2 days ago
Your Best Team Culture
Greg Thomas
Your team culture doesn’t start and end with a presentation or workshop – it starts the next day. It grows and improves each and every other day from there – as long as you hold true to what you want to accomplish. As soon as you fall back on old habits and practices, the culture falls apart because “If they don’t have to do it, why should I?” Some teams grow an organic culture, and this works; most need a direction, a path, a discussion to move forward. Balance your discussions; weeks and weeks of discussion with no action is …
Getting the Work Done
Work gets done when you sit down, put the timer on, put yourself into DND, and work the problem. We used to strive for focus time and the zone moment – now we don’t. But THAT was where all our work was getting done. So go back to it, find your ZONE moments, and get the work done that needs to get done. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
Meeting Overload
Is the problem too many meetings or not enough time between meetings to do the work? It’s one or the other and until you ask the real question, you’ll never get to the right answer. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
3 weeks ago
Craftsmanship vs the Factory
Everyone wants craftsmanship for factory prices. But craftsmanship isn’t built in a factory, so the two are always on opposite sides of the coin. The factory delivers the volume the craftsman can’t, but will never evolve into the delivery of a craft. You can be the factory or the craftsman; both are solid, but you can’t be both. You can be a craftsman who delivers at factory scale with work similar to your craft, but never will be. Pick one, move forward, stop trying to be both. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as …