In honor of May 4, a sacred day among Star Wars fans (because George Lucas released all of the Star War movies on May 4th), I’m blogging about my Rule #1: Do or do not. There is no try. Clearly, I did not make up this rule. It’s Yoda’s rule. But it’s a damn good […]
Matrix Group is competing in the Arlington Green Games, a competition for the commercial office sector (property owners and tenants) in Arlington, VA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Gold, Silver, Bronze and Recognition awards are given based on points achieved in different categories: Energy, Transportation, Waste, Water, Materials, Employees & Outreach, and Innovation. When we […]
With all the hiring we’re doing right now, my team decided that we better revisit all of our orientation guides. Orientations work like this at Matrix Group: we ask staff members from all teams to help with the orientation; we give them an outline and they do the session. Spreading the orientation schedule around means […]
Whenever Matrix Group flies Creative Director Alex Pineda to the DC area (from San Francisco, where he is based), he asks to fly Virgin America. Alex says the Virgin flying experience is “superior to other airlines.” Last week, I got to experience why Alex likes Virgin so much. For my son’s Spring Break, my family […]
For the past few years, I’ve had the honor and pleasure of chairing a benefit auction for Doorways for Women and Families, a non-profit that helps women and children who are homeless and/or victims of domestic violence in the Northern VA area. This year, despite the recession, the silent auction was the best ever, featuring […]
I’m watching the Women’s Downhill competition during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics this evening. I saw several women crash on the course, their Olympics dreams and year of preparation, go up in smoke. Business books are full of sports analogies, but for my part, I’m glad that the world of business is not really like the […]
I was arranging lunch with a vendor and suggested Kora, the hip, new Italian restaurant in Crystal City. I wanted to e-mail my contact Kora’s address, phone number and a link to a Google map. Alas, the entire Kora site is in Flash, which is beautiful, but it’s not very user-friendly. The biggest problem? I […]
On my way to work this morning, I heard a story on NPR about how immigrants to this country have adopted the Thanksgiving tradition and made it their own. A Greek chef talked about how his mother made a Thanksgiving turkey but every other dish during the meal was Greek. The story reminded me of […]
A few years ago, Matrix Group was looking for a Network Administrator. We had been looking for 18 months with no success. The situation was bleak. The candidates coming in were awful, my team was overworked and desperate to make a hire, and recruiters were failing us miserably. Then I attended a presentation by Barry […]
When we moved to our new office in Crysta City, it meant reprinting all of our marketing materials. While it was simply a matter of updating and reprinting most of our collateral, we decided to redesign our business cards. Matrix Group Creative Director Alex Pineda wanted to update the design with the refreshed logo and […]