According to two studies, companies or teams or groups where the leader of the group is fair and honest will perform better than teams where the that is not seen as accurate.  This is kind of a “duh” study, but…

I finally made it to the FDP meeting today, just in time for the last presentation of the day, which is fortunate because I won’t be at the meeting tomorrow at all. (Clients want meetings; I consider myself fortunate!) Unfortunately Mark Bussow’s…

A bunch of TCG people went to our local gun range today as a reward for hitting our quarterly strategy goal! We took a bunch of pictures, and I’ll add more later when we get them posted. This picture shows our armored…

Dates in Web forms drive me crazy! On some sites, you must enter a date in a very particular format. On other sites, you must have 4 digit years, but 2 digit years on other sites. For this reason, we have decided to package…

We’ve had getting-up-towards 200 employees over the years. Many left when the company had hard times, some left because they found other work or had kids, we even lost two to Amazon and one to Microsoft. (Amazingly, our voluntary turnover…

In the Washington Post today was a story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933.html) about research by Norbert Schwartz into what people actually understand when myths are “busted.” (See “Metacognitive Experiences And The Intricacies Of Setting People Straight: Implications For Debiasing And Public Information Campaigns from…

Dan Turner, the chap who runs TCG, has been quoted in a Washington Business Journal article about how some local businesses save money while growing:  Dan Turner, president of TCG, says the company’s goal is to save the government a total of…

Eric Spiegel is a fellow work-from-home type who founded a great company, XTS, which provides software for planning, managing and auditing Citrix and other virtualization platforms. He also writes a regular column for IT Management, the latest of which is all about the…

And so begins another blog, and good thing too, because there weren’t enough already! Despite all the navel-gazing that tends to occur, there have been some extraordinary uses for them out there. The ones that I read on a daily basis tend…

On April 19, the Washington Post ran an article about a major renovation to the National Museum of American History. Included in the renovation is “a large devotional space for the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the national anthem.” Next…