Since 2006, wages in super-caffeinated Seattle have increased 9 percent, placing the Emerald City second in the nation for cities with the highest wage increases. For Seattle companies, this upturn signals a return to pre-recession economic conditions – and more competition for top talent.
Is your organization prepared to:

• Keep top talent?
• Recruit high performers?
• Adjust your pay strategy according to the Puget Sound market?

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Teddy Roosevelt “Man in the Arena”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
—Steve Jobs: was an American inventor and businessman

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” -Steve Jobs

Congrats to our CEO Ann-Marie Archer, who started a neighborhood disaster preparedness program. Check out the article written about “Code RED” written in the Redmond Reporter! We love becoming inspired and taking leadership in the community! Let us know what you’re up to in your community and if you would like to start a Code RED in your neighborhood!

Code RED in the Redmond Reporter!