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This is How I do it
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The Ownership in Your Work
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The Leaders You Need
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I Don’t Know is the Best Answer
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Your Best Team Culture
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A Blistering Pace
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Get Out of the Way
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Flying Cars
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What Most Architecture Designs Miss
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Where are we?
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When someone says “this is how I do it” – they aren’t asking for input; they are definitely not asking for advice or feedback on how they do their job. They are simply saying, “This is how I do it,” and the corollary, which is “Deal with it.” They don’t say the “Deal with it,” but it’s implied, and you need to figure out how to work around it or with it. It’s an odd statement, because anyone can pull up an AI agent and ask for the best path to do a job, and 70% of the time, there …
12 hours ago
The Ownership in Your Work
Greg Thomas
If it breaks, it’s on you. If it looks like you copied it from AI without your own context, you copied it from AI without your own context. If it’s sloppy, you wrote it. If it doesn’t work, you built it. Things don’t always go the way we want in our work, but the level of effort and commitment that we invest is always, entirely up to us. Sloppy, Lazy, cut-and-paste work is a signal of our investment and commitment. You can own and make it more, or leave it and hope no one cares. The thing about ownership, which …
1 day ago
The Leaders You Need
Greg Thomas
Give them grace to make mistakes when they try their best. Give them space to try out new ideas even though you know it might fail. Give them a path that shows what they could become. Give them the tools to accomplish their goals and learn at the same time. Let them walk before they can run. When they put their hands on the stove, remind them it could burn. Raise them up when they are down. Don’t speak for them; let them and their work do that. These are the leaders we need, and they are also the leaders …
2 weeks ago
Where are we?
In any movie, when our intrepid team is trying to solve the latest problem in front of them, what do they do? They take stock of where they are, they lay all their equipment out, they throw away all pretense and nonsense, and simply ask the question – “Where are we?” If you are not doing this with your team, if you are masking this question around ideals and hopes and not wanting to rock the boat, then you are letting your team down. Where are we is the most important question you need to be asking your team. Want …
2 weeks ago
Team Events
Team Events need to start making a comeback. I don’t know when they went away, but dinner and a movie is not a team event. Doing things together, taking everyone away from the computer, having laughs and smiles about anything and everything. That’s what builds team culture, memories, moments, strung together – not just all about work. Team Events don’t have to cost money, and those are often the best ones. Team events are what bring people together, like anything else, and if you’re not having them, then you’re keeping your team apart. Want more? Check out my book Code …
Getting the Work Done
Work gets done when you sit down, put the timer on, put yourself into DND, and work the problem. We used to strive for focus time and the zone moment – now we don’t. But THAT was where all our work was getting done. So go back to it, find your ZONE moments, and get the work done that needs to get done. 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.