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Just a Quick Question
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The Never Shipped
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Your Best Time
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Take a Leap
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It Gets Better
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The Authenticator App Problem
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Coaching vs Leadership
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Team Emergence
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I Sent it to You
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Shackleton’s Journey
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It’s never a Quick Question – it starts at 2 mins, goes to 5, then 10, maybe 20, and possibly ends at 30. That’s not a bad thing; you need information, and someone can help you. The Question cannot be quick because once you get the answer to the first part of your question, you’ll inevitably have more. A better request, with the same amount of urgency, could be; I have an Urgent Question (no time) I need your help (see above) Can you help (immediate, asking for your attention) Do you know this works? (see above) There is no …
20 hours ago
The Never Shipped
Greg Thomas
Don’t let your Never Shipped get too big; it will swallow you whole. It doesn’t matter who uses it or who gets it, just that you shipped. I once built a product, put it out there, and for months no one wanted it. On the day I shut it down, a university called asking for a demo to use it. You never know until you ship. This is more than dipping your toe in the water; this is putting your whole foot in, this is wading into your waist. And the water’s cold. So most leave it to their toe. …
2 days ago
Your Best Time
Greg Thomas
Your best time is the time that everything will forever be compared to. Forevermore, you will fight to beat and surpass it. Maybe you will, maybe you won’t. You might share it; many do, just as many don’t. Why? Because it’s their best time; it doesn’t need to be shared. Your Best Time is forever yours and yours to do with as you see fit. Surpass it, share it, hide it, admire it, let it rest, brag about it, don’t talk about it, leave it or forget it. It’s Yours to do with as you please. Want more? Check out …
2 weeks ago
Shackleton’s Journey
One of the first leadership books I ever read was “Leading at the Edge” which centered around Shackleton’s journey to the Antarctic under horrific conditions while keeping his team together and alive. The copy I have is older than this one, but here it is if you haven’t read it. I stumbled across it, found it on a shelf at work one late night, and brought it home to read – one of the best leadership books I’ve ever read. So it was pretty cool to see this expedition to find his shipwreck here, after all those years, where his …
2 weeks ago
How do you measure Productivity?
By how much do you produce, and what do you accomplish? Look, it’s not a rocket science type of goal, you do work, you are productive. You don’t do work; you are not productive. Don’t make it complicated, but make sure you’re always using that metric. Doing work and delivering at the end of the week, means you were productive. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
2 weeks ago
Skewed Adjective AI Analysis
Presentation and design have never, and will never, be my strong suit. I very much like doing all my research, gathering my notes and content, and handing it off to AI to “prettify”. Make some great infographics. Make that slide deck sing. Take my markerboard diagrams and point out the flaws. Use a consistent colour palette. All of it, yes, please. But the most annoying part is all the adjectives that get thrown around my work and other points that skew a decision, simply because I was asking a lot of questions on that one topic. Objective Analysis still holds …