As younger Millennials transition into the workplace, older Millennials become more comfortable with what they can and cannot do, and other generations adapt to survive and collaborate with this new generation, three core principles have emerged: Innovation, Competition, and Fairness. As stated by Henry Jackson, the CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, these [...]
Ask Alex Rogers, CEO of CharTec and ARRC Technology, what surprised him the most about running his own business, and he’ll say that it’s the employees. “When I first started my business, I didn’t expect to feel so thankful for my employees. Their talent. Their dedication. Their spirits. They are the reason my businesses have [...]
When it comes to marketing – both for CharTec and our members – we’re big on marketing tracks. In fact, we usually have multiple marketing tracks running in one year, with each track serving different purposes, at different times, for different audiences. But what is a marketing track and how can you create one? It’s [...]
Recently, someone asked us a question, and it went something like this, Hey, CharTec. We have all these break-fix clients, and we don’t really want to play on that side of the fence anymore. How do we go about converting our current break-fix clients to full-blown managed services clients? Our answer to this question is [...]
The statistics surrounding stress on the job are frightening. No, really. They’re frightening. The following statistics are currently presented on the website for The American Institute of Stress: 80% of workers feel stress on the job 42% of workers say their coworkers need help managing this stress 14% of workers have felt like striking a [...]
Since the dawn of time, psychopathy has been positioned as a negative “grouping of personality characteristics” – the makings of a serial killer or the beginnings of an epic con man. But, in all reality, is psychopathy really such a bad thing? Think about it for a minute. It’s been said that out of every [...]
Over the last few years, there’s been a movement towards Progressive Reduction, where the design of something is gradually simplified for the sophisticated user. The outcome can have a variety of results – like an icon that no longer needs a label or a logo that has been reduced to a quarter of what it [...]
For you, being a nerd is simply part of your biological makeup; it’s who you are. But knowing nerd-like things… now that’s another story. Building up that beautiful “nerdness” requires a different kind of dedication. A case in point of this careful character crafting is that it takes far more than one viewing of Lord [...]
Marketing is all about vision and risks. It’s about making connections, delving into the analytics, crossing those fingers, and encouraging creativity. It’s about forcing your products and solutions to come to life in different ways, for different people. But for everyone outside of the marketing world, marketing is about having fun. It’s about crayons, PDFs, [...]
As a Managed Service Provider, you’ve got this whole content thing in the bag. For once in your life, you are the popular kid. You are king of online engagement, and everything you create drips of interesting, useful, and exciting information. Right…? Let’s hope so. You have the freedom to write on topics like smart [...]
