Archive for January 2006
Trostel’s puts a new spin on fine dining
Ever visit a restaurant and order salad, soup, steak and vegetables, only to find out that you’re taking most of it home at the end of the meal?
Paul Trostel has, which inspired the concept …
Don’t silence electorate
There’s a small bomb in the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s quality-of-life legislative priorities for 2006. Like the Partnership, we support renewal of the Vision Iowa program, which encourages public-private partnerships to make Iowa more livable, …
Read MoreGo beyond treating employees equally; treat each one fairly
Treating people equally can be a coward’s way out. It becomes a burladero behind which leaders cower when challenged by pluralist remedy.
Fairness, on the other hand, takes diligent thought and deliberation. Special consideration must …
A lousy year for women
An innocent reference to Baby New Year as an “it” the other night started a nice round of fireworks to usher out 2005. Someone insisted that because the effigy symbolized rebirth for mankind, it must …
Read MoreMaking time
Work-obsessed corporate cultures are hardly news to executive coach Russell Jensen. As the founder of Jensen Consulting in 2002 and director of RSM McGladrey Inc.’s management consulting program in Iowa for 20 years before that, …
Read MoreA purpose-driven building
How quickly would Greater Des Moines businesses be able to recover their data and resume operations after a tornado, flood or other disaster? Where would employees work if their company’s headquarters were ripped apart or …
Read MoreDes Moines power couple sets pace with $1 million
Recently retired AmerUs Group Co. Chairman and CEO Roger Brooks and Doextra Corp. founder and President Sunnie Richer’s $1 million endowment fund helped push United Way of Central Iowa’s 2005 campaign to a record $20.17 …
Read MoreRussell went online to take the road less traveled
While Frank Russell was scraping together bank loans, some capital from his first start-up company and financial help from an angel investor to start GeoLearning Inc. in 1997, his West Coast competitors were being handed …
Read MoreIt’s the day when all things seem possible
Kevin Prust has the right idea when it comes to New Yearfs resolutions: gFirst, to spend more time with my family (a repeat from 2006, which I did not accomplish to the level I had …
Read MoreMaahs returns to hometown to lead Partnership initiative
David Maahs has spent most of his life living and working in either Des Moines or Ames. But prior to joining the Greater Des Moines Partnership Dec. 19 to lead the organization’s regional economic development …
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