The E-Review process is going great! For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of interacting with your IT consultants via video conferencing, you are missing out. Our clients really think it’s appropriate for the 21st Century and one of them is actually working on implementing a video conferencing setup because our review went so well.

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A recent article in the Boston Globe attempted to tackle and evaluate the complex behavior of human trust. It’s a short read, and can be found here.

I found the following quotes to be particularly striking:

“”The default is trust until there’s a reason not to,” says Robyn Dawes, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University.”

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The internet is all atwitter about Google’s foray into the browser world with its release of Chrome. I began running it yesterday and I must say I like what I see so far. If you haven’t heard anything about Google Chrome I’ll summarize it for you: A browser made from the ground up for the way we use the internet today (Web-based applications, Social Media, Tabbed browsing… The list goes on and on) In typical Google fashion it was a horribly well kept secret. A “comic book” describing the details was leaked on the Google’s blog prior to the release of the software yesterday. From the moment I heard about the browser and what made it different I couldn’t wait to click the download button!

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I’m so thankful for the team we have created.

I have grown accustomed to knowing how awesome they are and end up taking it for granted at times. Perfect example, we had our developers recently go on site with our consultants to understand exactly what those guys do. After they spent a few days with them I met up with the developers to discuss what they learned. One of them astoundingly said, “Wow, those guys are studs. They just know their stuff.”

He’s right, they do and I’m so thankful for them.

I’m thankful for all our people because they make my job easier due to their dedication and emphasis to the team. There are many examples of every person making that extra effort to help each other out and without much fanfare. It’s also amazing to see how when you give people the ability to do great things they time and time again step up to the plate. The consultants took the time and have built, in my opinion, the best technology workprogram on the planet for financial services, or the work the developers have done to hone in on our development processes to the marketing efforts, the scheduling improvements, the back operation invoicing, the list goes on.

So I write this post as a thanks to them and to let them know that they are my rockstars and I appreciate all you do for this company.