By Keith Fentress (President, Fentress, Inc.) and Mike Jones (President, Major Security Consulting and Design, LLC)

The mass shooting at the Capital Gazette has captured the nation’s attention. This tragedy, which took the lives of five people, promotes fears about the safety and security of the...

 By Keith Fentress (President, Fentress, Inc.) and Mike Jones (President, Major Security Consulting and Design, LLC)

The country is still in shock after the recent school shootings in Santa Fe High School, TX (10 dead,13 injured) and Parkland High School, FL (17 dead, 14 injured). School shootings...

I often hear the phrase, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” I took the phrase to heart about five years ago and began to focus heavily on measuring the performance of our employees, all of whom telework. I had graphs and scales for everything: How well employees supported company...

I was recently visiting a client in an open office setting. She gave me a tour of their newly designed space and led me to the workstation she had reserved for the day. It was a standard open office workstation with a decent-sized work surface, a large monitor, and a place for her to plug in a...

The foundation of any working relationship is trust. It used to be that your manager would give you assignments, and if you performed well, you would earn greater trust. Over time, you would be given more responsibility. This responsibility often came with more autonomy – the ability to make...