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April 12, 2021

Greg Thomas

Compounded Confusion

Confusion occurs when the task we are trying to accomplish is hit with new information that questions the necessity of the task. I’m asked to make scrambled eggs, but we have no eggs. Confusion – what should I do? Compounded Confusion occurs when we don’t change our direction based on the new information. I tell you we have no eggs and yet we keep being asked to make scrambled eggs. Now the issue is no longer about the task, but rather about the confusion of the task. Now we are talking about the confusion that is being derived from the

April 11, 2021

Greg Thomas

Where it gets Interesting…

You know the part of the problem I’m talking about. The moment where it all becomes clear, when what you need to do is in front of you and you know what the next steps are to solve it. That AHA or Eureka moment, whatever it is that you would like to call it. It’s that moment where you have a clear understanding of what is to be solved while also understanding the entire workload that must be completed to deliver it while at the same time understanding you don’t have enough time to get it all done. That’s the

April 10, 2021

Greg Thomas

What’s my Role?

You role, what you seek to accomplish, what you deliver, what you focus on. Is what you design it to be. The skills, the habits, the actions, the movements, the presentations are all yours to take and yours to own. If you want to be a manager, act like one. If you want to be a senior developer, learn what it takes to become one and start doing those things. If you want to be a product manager, do what product managers do. No one is stopping you from doing the role that you want to do. You might not

April 9, 2021

Greg Thomas

Step Back with your Team

When was the last time you took a step back from the work your team was doing and thought about how they are doing? Are they struggling? Are they stuck? Where do they need help? This isn’t about delivery, this is about growth, their growth, what is next, what they want to be doing, where they need to go. This also isn’t about your vision for them, it’s about them and what they want to achieve and where they want to go. It might be a case of them not even being in the right place currently and them needing

April 8, 2021

Greg Thomas

Vacuums of Leadership

When we think of a vacuum of “something” we think of an emptiness, a loss, a hole of something that should be there. Its worst than that. A vacuum is the motion by which something is there is sucked out into something else. So when we talk about Vacuum of Leadership we are really talking about those skills being sucked out of one area to another area. We see this quite often in the re-juggling of projects when a leader is moved from project to project creating a vacuum effect as all that knowledge, leadership, and guidance gets moved between