TiER1 was named to the Inc. 5000 list for the sixth year in a row! Inc. 5000 recognizes the 5000 fastest growing private companies in America. This year TiER1 was ranked #1993, which is our highest ranking so far.    In addition to the overall list, TiER1 ranks #141 in the Business Products and Services Industry and #11 in Kentucky. We have grown 135% in the past three years! We are extremely excited about this year’s ranking as it truly indicates how we’ve grown these past 10 years. We are honored to be on this list, and are grateful to our partners, clients and friends whose support...

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Okay.  The Brain and Behavior Blogger is about to break the suspense (created with the last blog entry) and disclose the secret to personal performance improvement. It's rather like New Year's resolutions. One of the primary contributing causes to the very high likelihood that New Year's resolutions will be broken is that your brain "prunes" them. As readers of this blog know very well:  When we learn, our brains make a weak, physiological connection between two things (e.g., one idea and another).  Barring repetition and/or practice, our brains - fundamentally designed to conserve...

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Great Article on the demand for more domestic workers to fill high-tech and information-based jobs in Sunday's Cincinnati Enquirer. Click here to see how TiER1 is partnering with Gateway Community and Technical College to develop an instructional design program to enhance the tech-filled workforce.  

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The Pittsburgh Business Times announced last week that TiER1’s Pittsburgh office is one of 2012’s Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania. This marks the sixth year in a row we’ve been recognized as an outstanding workplace.  “We’re fortunate to receive this honor again,” TiER1 CEO Greg Harmeyer said upon hearing the news. “Every employee has a big impact on making this a great place to work.” Best Places to Work results are determined by employee surveys conducted by the Pittsburgh Business Times.  Read more about the Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania on the Business...

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As the Brain and Behavior Blogger was scanning the most recent issue of Scientific American, the following sentence in an article caught his eye:  "To be sure, death by copulation is rare."  He read the sentence a second and then a third time trying to ascertain how or why he was misreading or misunderstanding such a simple sentence.   Eventually, once he read the next couple of lines as well, the B&B Blogger had to conclude that the focus of the article was exactly what would be implied from the first sentence he had read:  Why people die during sex. In the article as a whole, here's...

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