Articles for category: Delivery

January 5, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Burnout Watch

Big deadlines, and big deliveries, no matter the level of planning you do, will always require some extra effort. There is no way around it, irrespective of the field you are in, that extra push always needs to happen. You hope for it to be a week, but then a week turns to 2 and then into a month. This is where your team needs your leadership, your guidance, and your experience to know when 1 turns into 2 that things are going to change, that you might need to pump the brakes, that you might have to set rest

January 4, 2025

Greg Thomas

Don’t Drift Now…

Set your goals, set your startup – don’t start drifting now. It’s tougher to come back when you’ve let yourself drift. Now’s not the time to start.

January 3, 2025

Greg Thomas

What you Deliver

How you deliver? The path you took to get there? That matters. But more importantly, what you deliver – is it workable, does it scale, is it easily understood, can someone jump onto it next, is there a standard to it, how can it be used in the future – will always matter more. You can deliver great, quality, scalable, reusable work – in any situation you are in. Focus on what you Deliver.

January 2, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Creativity in Productivity

You can be productive and be creative. Productivity isn’t a factor that does everything a certain way without deviation. Productivity is committing to the goal and finding a path to get to that goal. When creativity enters the mix, productivity can go in a variety of different directions designed to help you try out new ideas and initiatives and grow. You can deliver consistently be productive and still be creative in the solutions you create. One doesn’t sacrifice the other.

January 1, 2025

Greg Thomas

It’s Here

It’s here, it’s finally here, we’ve waited all year for it. And now it is here. The calendar rolled over. Time to begin anew and move forward with our hopes and dreams. Or, and most importantly, keep going on the projects you started in 2024, don’t shelve them for the shiny and bright, keep pushing through.