As the old saying goes, time is money. And there is nothing worse than feeling like you just frittered away valuable time at a meeting that tanked for lack of a tight agenda, the key people, etc. What are the key components of a meeting we can all be proud of? A few ideas
Let me introduce you to the employee I always wanted on staff but never had the opportunity to hire. “John” is an engineer in a medium-sized consulting office in Texas. He regularly contacts our office to let me know what he likes about our HEC-RAS software, what he doesn’t like, and
I loved to take things apart when I was a kid. This penchant for disassembling household items was not appreciated by the adults in my life. On one occasion when I was 5 years old, I remember being very firmly directed by an exasperated HVAC technician to remove myself from
It takes only a few substandard hires to bore a hole into your bottom line. It’s actually amazing how much money a company can lose over a few employees who don’t work out. So, like other businesses that champion onboarding and other strategies, I try to create an
What would you think of a software company that is so keen on making a great product that it will take client requests for new software capabilities and will implement them, sometimes within days of the request? That would be a bit unusual wouldn’t it? And yet, CivilGEO does exactly that; we
You can see signs of it wherever you look. When was the “small house movement” ever so big? When was the last time you saw so many books on the virtues of living a simple life? Why is practicing “mindfulness” so prevalent? The truth is that life is full of clutter, physical
Some ten years ago, I worked with a developer who I will refer to as “Ivan.” Ivan was a software developer from Russia who, aside from regular outbursts of sarcasm, rarely communicated with anyone. He worked largely by himself and he liked it that way. He was famous for holding up completion
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