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July 15, 2020

Greg Thomas

Leadership Delegation vs Abdication

A leader delegates when they cannot handle all the tasks on their own so they engage the team to help. In many cases, the leader also looks to delegate tasks that will help their team grow as they guide them through this process. The key to successful delegation is exactly this, the continued observation, guidance and support of those tasks being performed by your team. A leader abdicates a task when they turf it off to someone on their team – no guidance, no support, no feedback, just the task. It’s usually accompanied by “I’ll leave it to you to

July 14, 2020

Greg Thomas

We’ll Figure it out as we go

Tell me when this has worked for everyone involved? If it’s something simple, like the background of the page, sure, figure it out as we go. If it’s something more complex, like the vision of a new project or the upcoming of a release. Nothing is more demoralizing to your team then hearing – “we’ll figure it out as we go” when they are about to jump into a new project. There is a time to “figure it out as we go” and it’s definitely not at the beginning of a project. Want more? Check out my book Code Your

July 13, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remote Team Fatigue

You would have to be a robot (or a chatbot) to not realize that your team is most likely starting to feel the effects of Remote Work Fatigue. Either they have or they are on their way to feeling it. These are one of those moments in your role as being a leader that you will forever remember how you responded and helped your team work through this milieu. For many it is starting to set in that they probably won’t be back in the office for a few more months, maybe more. In which case, they have more of

July 10, 2020

Greg Thomas

Remotely Prepared with Liam Martin

I forget to post the updates to Remotely Prepared under some guise that I have missed the “window of opportunity.” Last week we released our latest episode, an interview with Liam Martin. I love interviews that go in a completely different direction then what we originally intended. I’m not sure if this makes me a good interviewer (or a bad one) but it’s that inflection point where I can see the value of the conversation to people. Liam has a wealth of experience in the remote conference arena and near the end he provides some great insight into setting up

July 9, 2020

Greg Thomas

Compile Once

How many times have you tried to write all your code into the IDE all at once to see how far you could get with compiling it in your head to play through how it would work before you actually hit F5? I’ve gone pretty far and then I reach a point where I want to just keep going, I don’t want to know the real-time result because what I’ve played through in my head is guaranteed to be much better than what’s going to happen. In my head it is working beyond measure, it’s incredible, it takes a licking