Leadership Lessons Articles

I Started 2021 With a Cry

My wife, Jessica, sent me this poem on January 2, 2021, and it made me cry. I encourage you to read the full poem and immerse yourself in it like I did. I can relate to the poem as a father, son, and entrepreneur. Mostly I relate to it as a person who has overcome adversity […]
Raising The Standards

This year has taught us so much about ourselves, team members and our organization. When everything started to shift in March including working from home, our team was presented with its own challenges. As the job market continued to change, we knew we needed to raise our standards and expectations to accommodate it. This would require more training, one on ones, position changes and a full focus on heightening productivity and efficiency. Although our culture is […]
What’s The Best That Can Happen?

Facing Fear, Fighting Inertia When COVID took the country by storm, Triple Crown was prepared. That’s not to say that we had prepared for a pandemic. But, in a leadership session in the winter of 2019, we spent time planning for how Triple Crown could and should respond to a far-reaching, 9/11-type event. When the quarantine […]
Triple Crown Consulting Promotes Three Executives to Regional Vice President

Austin, Texas, March 5, 2020 – Triple Crown Consulting, a technology recruitment firm filling hard-to-find senior tech roles through its vast talent network, today announced the creation of three U.S. regions to better manage growth and has promoted three of its executives to lead each area. Monica Jackson, Regional Vice President, West; Laura Lee Harris, […]
5 Reasons Engineers Thrive in the Gig Economy

“Gig” work – that is, freelancing, consulting or contracting work – is what has given rise to the gig economy. It centers around independent contractors working short-term, gig assignments before moving onto another contract. And it’s booming. What may have started out as some engineers’ side hustle, that is working contracts or project work outside […]
5 Ways to Optimize Employee Recognition

Not All Slaps on the Back Are Created Equally Many business leaders will tell you that the best part of the job is getting the chance to recognize growth and achievement in your employees. For me, it’s definitely true. First, their successes on the job mean that our business is growing and profiting. They sell […]
Breaking Through: Culture, Growth, Leadership

This past month, I was honored to be a panelist during Staffing Industry Analysts’s Staffing Executive Seminar. Specifically, I was part of the panel for the Breaking Through Workshop, modeled after the book Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms, written by SIA President Barry Asin and staffing performance consultant Mike Cleland. Like the book, the workshop […]
Perks for Top Engineering Talent

Acquiring elite engineering talent is vital for the successful completion of an engineering project. From acting with urgency, to offering flexible scheduling, small perks and gestures are a great way to attract skilled engineers. Steven Burke, Triple Crown Site Lead, and distinguished Technical Recruiter, uses his 9 years of industry expertise to explain how to […]
How to Build a Winning Company Culture

What Fosters a Winning Company Culture? Support, Competition and Communication. For those who may not know the whole story behind Triple Crown Consulting, it was built around the triple crown, which, in baseball, refers to the unofficial championship title achieved by a player who leads the league in batting average, home runs and runs batted […]
People-First Cultures and Business Profitability

3 Ways My Harvard Executive Education Confirmed My Instincts and Opened My Eyes Triple Crown has grown so much in recent years that we have a wonderful problem. (Yes, the right problem can be wonderful.) Here’s the challenge we’re facing: can we continue our robust growth, push to the next level and still maintain our […]