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June 24, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Road to Team Lead

Typically in software development, you become/apply/promoted to a Team Lead position based on your work and performance as a developer.  Which is why it is so critical when hiring developers that you look at the Leadership Quotient that they bring to the table. The day after a promotion to Team Lead is entirely awkward, whereas less than 24 hours ago you were only responsible for your code, now you all of a sudden you are responsible for; Projects People Performance All things that are not related to your performance anymore but instead the rest of your Team’s. This post is

June 23, 2016

Greg Thomas

Developer Leadership Quotient

Quotient – The number of times one quantity is contained in another. The need to hire someone in your organization is typically driven by the needs of the organization today – we have projects to complete, those projects must be completed to ensure the success of the organization, we cannot grow without the successful completion of these products. If you hire for the “now” you will most likely achieve the goal of completing the project that needed to be done today but you probably have not hired for to be able to grow tomorrow. In simpler terms – think about

June 22, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Leaving Tell

There are many tells to when we all think someone is going to leave and there is no right “tell” as we all have our own version of Spidey Sense. But here it is for me – when someone gets quiet and stops offering new ideas – you know something is amiss.  When they would rather not partake in the discussion but instead go along with it.  When their previous mantra of change has now been replaced with a mantra of “okay” you know that the passion has left the building. Now is the time to get worried. Are they forgone?

June 21, 2016

Greg Thomas

10 Things Happy, Successful People DO NOT Focus on

I wrote this article for the Every Day Power Blog – not only a great blog to write for, but a great blog to read and learn from – so many great writers are on that site. The article was published yesterday, but it was a crazy day of ups and downs on a plane that I only got the chance to post here tonight. If you’ve ever thought about what you DO NOT need to focus on, then this is the blog post for you.    

June 20, 2016

Greg Thomas

Don’t Limit your Training

I have this free training package where I can go online and watch a slew of training videos. At least I thought I could watch a slew of them. I went to go login to the site and start taking advantage of all this site had to offer – finding a ton of material on things outside of development – writing, drawing, photoshop, mobile development, strategy planning, etc, etc. But I only had access to what was offered to me in this free package which was very focussed on what I was being given to learn.  I looked at all