They also advocated strongly for being included in big decisions. The White House technologists came up with a concept called technical quotient (TQ), akin to the notion of IQ or EQ, to explain to executive leadership across departments and agencies—whether at the Pentagon, the White House, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, the General Services Administration, or the Department of Homeland Security—the importance of having “TQ at the table.” “We are at a point in history that technologists need to be part of the
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