by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
This year has been tough. Understatement, right? I won’t waste time listing all the things that have changed or disappeared altogether so far in 2020, because you know them as well as I do. Lately, I feel like I’m floating in an undetermined space. I feel tired. My...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
In July 2020, I was invited by Mike O’Neill of Bench Builders, a workforce consulting firm, to speak on a webinar about working from home (WFH). It seemed like everybody and their brother was writing articles providing WFH tips to people and businesses who had...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
Psychometrics is “the science of measuring mental capacities and processes.” Early in grad school at Virginia Tech, I was a psychometrics nerd. I loved learning about how to construct psychological tests and assess their statistical validity and reliability. I...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
A few weeks ago, my 18-year-old daughter, Maddie, was driving home around midnight. There were train tracks ahead, but the barrier arms were raised, and no lights were flashing. So, she drove across the tracks… …and saw a blinding headlight attached to a...
by Melissa Gratias, Ph.D. |
I was in my early 20s when I first heard the truism above in a project management class. The implications of “Good, fast, and cheap…pick two” are: If it’s fast and good, it’s going to be expensive If it’s good and cheap, it will require lots and lots of time If...