Tag: culture

  • Guiding Principles

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    I had a nice visit to the Richmond office this week. As Dara said, it’s going to be “Richmond hipster”, replete with a huge mural along the main wall. As we were moving various items into the new office, I came across a whiteboard that had advice written for new employees. It got me to…

  • Spirit and Intent: Demonstrating the Values

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    Tahzoo was founded upon these core values. Our Core Values are a promise we make to each other. Each of us must keep the promise every day. Internalizing and demonstrating our four core values is a performance expectation as essential to any job as professional knowledge, skills and abilities. If you CARE about your customers…

  • Why Tahzoo

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    I spent the week driving across the United States visiting BBQ restaurants and meeting people. I am always fascinated to hear the stories about how the restaurant was started and to feel the passion of the pitmaster. One thing strikes me about BBQ, nobody gets into the business for the money, maybe the fame but…

  • Last Full Week in June

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    “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” -Peter Drucker  Last full week in June…   I saw my doctor this week for my annual checkup. Pleased to say I am in good health with the possible exception that my blood pressure was a bit too high as you could probably imagine, my stress…

  • Last Full Week in June

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    “Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker   I saw my doctor this week for my annual checkup. Pleased to say I am in good health with the possible exception that my blood pressure was a bit too high as you could probably imagine, my stress level is likely…

  • Let’s Get Social!

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    “What would you do if you believed you only had a few minutes to live? Don’t look back. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up. Don’t Look Down.”       – Sir Richard Branson  I’ve been talking a lot recently about The Experience Economy my perspective on how I think the world of business has shifted over recent years from one of consumption to one based on…

  • Making Tahzoo Great

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    “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton  You know every week I end my letter to the company with Let’s go be great – I really mean that in fact I really want that for each of you and myself. We all have a choice; we can work…

  • Measuring Our Employees and Our Clients

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    This week I am going to focus on the measurement of the two most important areas of our business: our employees and our clients. As we start the final quarter of 2015, it’s important to take a look back at both our successes and areas of improvement so that we can end the year feeling…

  • Another Great Week…

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    I hope you had a great week too… We have been making good strides towards building the new Tahzoo. I realize that it can’t all be great and that all of us have good weeks and tough weeks, but for me, it was a great week. I am seeing our strategy take hold and I’ve…

  • Tahzoo Commitment

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    As a follow up to my commentary last week, I’d like to continue my discussion about commitment. As the company grows and changes we need to be committed to our values and to what has gotten us here. I realize for many of you who are part of the Hinttech organization joining Tahzoo, you may…