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May 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

Focus on Less to Accomplish More

You know the saying about doing more with less to make something happen? It’s usually thrown out be the person being asked for something and they have nothing to give.  Or in the case where you need to dig deep, tap into that unused motivation and turn water into wine and MAKE IT HAPPEN! It’s close, but the statement is little off, really what it should read as is… Focus on Less to Accomplish More. You have twenty tasks to do this week, do you think you are going to get them all done?  Best guess, if you invested 25%

May 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

Something is going to go Wrong

Something is going to go wrong today. Code will break. Builds will fail. Customers will flood the lines. Your website will go down. Someone will leave. You’ll lose your presentation. Someone will take your idea. Maybe not in the same realm of the above, but something will go wrong today, it will not go as planned. So – is now a good time to throw it all out the window?  If you can’t have the perfect day then forget it and toss it to the yard? Yeah, not everything is going to go your way and the day might end

May 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

Leaving is Personal

When someone leaves your team, your organization, your whatever – it’s not business, it’s personal – there said it. But not for the reason that you think. If you’ve ever had this happen to you, you know the feeling inside that you can’t shake for the next two weeks and for all the times thereafter.  I can name all the people that have left while they were on my team.  I can tell you exactly how they each did it and what went through at my mind the instant they approached me, the instant in which they told me and

May 3, 2016

Greg Thomas

Hire Someone Better

But, but, but what about my ego? Really, we’re still worrying about your ego? Look, if you really want to make sure that for the rest of eternity, in your world, you are and always will be the Top Dog then please continue to do the following; Ask the most edge case questions in an interview that no one would ever know just so you can feel smarter. Filter out people who give you that pang in your stomach because you now know, you would need to step up your game. Instead of focussing on what you are good at,

May 2, 2016

Greg Thomas

Clearing Your Backlog

Backlog an accumulation of something, especially uncompleted work or matters that need to be dealt with. We all have one, possibly in many forms; To do lists Task reminders Goals for the Day Weekly To Dos Ideas for the future Sticky notes or Online Cards At the end of the day it is your system for you manage all that you want to do but you invariably do not have time to finish in one day, week or month.  When you log onto your computer each day it stares at you in the face, daring you to do something about