Articles for category: Leadership

March 20, 2025

Greg Thomas

Can AI…

Can AI… Tie your shoe (how awesome would that be). Use a Pencil. Put their hand up to ask a question. Slide down a hill and avoid the rocks. Lead your team. Start a team. Okay, these might sound unfair because they are heavily involved in doing things and creating things that require more than simple prompts. What about dealing with inflation and keeping food prices low? What about preventing climate change and normalizing weather patterns? What about dealing with the distribution of wealth? Truth, is AI might have some great ideas on how to do these things, but we

March 18, 2025

Greg Thomas

The Last Pick

No one wants to be the last pick, but eventually we are. Whether it’s the school you want to attend, the job you want, the dodgeball team, etc, etc. Sometimes you are the last pick. What matters next is what you do knowing you were the last pick. Do you sit and complain about being the last pick or do you move forward and do something with it? Prove why you shouldn’t have been the last pick. Make your selection worthwhile. Put your value on display. The last pick happens, what you do next is entirely up to you.

March 16, 2025

Greg Thomas

I Know more than You

No I don’t. Not even close. I know things you don’t know and vice-versa. That’s the beauty of working with a team, you don’t have to be the expert at everything, you don’t have to know it all. The best advice I ever got for leading a developer that outclassed me in every area – “I won’t be able to help you with coding, but I am going to help you with all that other stuff” – and from there we worked incredibly well together. There are no Gurus, Ninjas or Rockstars – there is you and your team.

March 13, 2025

Greg Thomas

Feedback in Intervals

Feedback can come in intervals or as one big hose. The benefit of intervals is that you are able to give out the feedback in drips, watch for improvement, tweak, and give out some more. When it comes out as a firehose, the “giving” of the feedback benefits you because you get it out all at once and can move on. Feedback in intervals takes longer, goes slower, and requires you to hold back when talking to others.  It puts more on you as the leader than the individual. Anyone can do a firehose and get everything out all at

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