Category: Culture

  • Quarantine Photo Challenge

    “What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”  – Matina Horner  Hi Everyone,   Many of us have reached or passed 40 days of quarantine. How are you doing? Write to me and let me know if I can help in any way.  I…

  • Spreading Optimism while Practicing Social Distancing

    “Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.”  – Mike Dolan  Hello everyone,   As I mentioned in previous Desks of Brad, I was supposed to be doing my cross country BBQ drive this week, my how much things have changed in such a short period of time.…

  • Who Do You Want to Work With?

    “You can’t teach employees to smile. They have to smile before you hire them.”   – Arte Nathan  Do they give you energy? I know we’ve been interviewing a lot of people lately. I was thinking about our clients and how helping them change corporate culture is hard. It’s not just that we invent strategies and implement systems,…

  • Get Involved and Just Make Sure You Vote!

    “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”  – Thomas Jefferson  I’ve intentionally made the Desk of Brad an apolitical forum. Living and working in D.C. over the last 20+ years has given me a perspective about how the government…

  • Making Connections through Literature, Let’s Get Our Read On!

    “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop  There is an old saying that “the difference between people is the books they’ve read and the people they’ve met”. As most of you know I enjoy reading very much. I still consider it reading if you listen to a book on Audible etc., (just to…

  • For Those Who Love To Teach

    Let’s get excited.    Do you remember when you were in your early twenties looking for a job? What were you thinking about at that time…? What’s my future going to be… will I be successful, fall in love, buy a house, have children, be rich… You had lots of unknowns during that time and a…

  • 9 Years!

    “Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values – and sticking to them – requires real guts.”  -Patrick Lencioni  Happy Anniversary, Tahzoo!   Nine years… What a pleasure spending time with each and every one of you today! We get…

  • All Hands 2019

    “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”  – Albert Schweitzer  Ready for next week? We have the all-hands meeting on Friday, we’ll be broadcasting for those who are unable to attend in person. For everyone else, I look forward…

  • Moving Offices

    Today marks the last day that our headquarters will be at 1005 7th St NW, starting Monday we will be taking up residence in a different office space at 1015 7th St NW- located just down the block.   Many of you may recall when we first got our soon to be former office space… we…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    “Give thanks for each new morning with its light: for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for heal and food, for love and friends, and for everything thy goodness sends.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson  Well, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s often said that gratefulness is the secret to happiness. I find that…