This has been a rather busy week for TSG and the media.On Monday, Chris Spaulding, a company SVP who heads sales and client relations, and Patrick Fowler, our firm's COO, were interviewed on WCTC Radio. They discussed sales and marketing...
Performance Perspectives Blog
Thoughts on performance measurement from David Spaulding and other members of our team.
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Inflating performance
Excuse me for once again commenting on the subject of trust, but I just learned that Claremont Mckenna College, a prestigious California institution, has admitted to inflating SAT scores to improve it's ranking. There seems to be almost an epidemic in such...
“Say again?”
It wasn't long after I joined the Field Artillery that I learned that one did not say "repeat" over the radio, especially when speaking to anyone in an artillery battery, as this expression means to "fire again." Instead, one would simply speak the...
PMAR IX Transcripts Published
We're pleased to announce that the transcripts from last year's Performance Measurement, Attribution, and Risk (PMAR) conference has been published. Since TSG began the conference ten years ago, we have gone to the expense of time and money to produce these reports,...
A year of epiphanies, perhaps?
Today is the Feast of the Epiphany. At Church our pastor explained the meaning of the term:capitalized, it refers to the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi (three Kings)lower case, it is a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into...
How large is your stack of quotidian reports?
If you're like me, the word "quotidian" is probably one you're not terribly familiar with. Perhaps you don't even see it in print regularly, though interestingly it appeared twice on page A15 of the July 26, 2011 edition of The Wall Street Journal, in both an article...
Fun stuff!
We got picked up in another blog; kind of cute, so sharing it here!
Down with obfuscation!
As we begin a new year (and one of the "leap" variety, at that!), I wish to share with you further commentary from Henry Hitchings' The Language Wars. Recall that I mentioned this book in a recent post. The reality is, there is much of what he's written which lends...
“We are the agents of change”
One of my Christmas presents this year was the book, The Language Wars, by Henry Hitchings. Not surprisingly, I have already discovered some great insights which translate well to our profession.Hitchings quotes American linguist William Dwight Whitney: “‘Every...