Archive for March 2012
2012 Forty Under 40 Winner: Eric Wieland
Age 36 | Environmental planning and historic preservation branch director, Federal Emergency Management Agency
Eric Wieland returned home to Iowa from active duty in 2008 as floodwaters were devastating the eastern part of the state. …
2012 Forty Under 40 Winner: Geoff Wood
Age 33 | Chief operating officer, Silicon Prairie News
Geoff Wood wants Des Moines to become a place that young people, including his 3-year-old son, don’t dismiss when they graduate from high school or college.…
2012 Forty Under 40
Well, shoot, I didn’t make it this year. Perhaps my application got lost in the mail. Or maybe I was snubbed for ethical reasons. Yep, that’s likely what happened — I’m pretty sure of it.…
Read MoreNonprofit: “I Have a Dream” Foundation
Low-income at-risk students often have extraordinary challenges to overcome both inside and outside the classroom. Even if these students graduate from high school, attending college can remain an unaffordable dream.
That’s where the “I Have …
Read MoreGUEST OPINION: In complex times, persevere
“If a company is only as good as its people, companies today have much to worry about,” says Margaret “Meg” Wheatley, an internationally acclaimed writer, teacher and speaker.
As an author of several leadership books, …
Read MoreTRANSITIONS: Honor without profit
I don’t claim any special ability to predict what’s going to happen – every morning, the “Today Show” theme music catches me by surprise – but back during the first dot-com boom, I often would …
GITOMER: Referrals must be earned
I am taking a new business development job for a wellness and surgery center. We need doctors to refer their obese patients to us. Doctors seem so hard to get in front of. Do you …
MCLELLAN: It’s about them, not you
One of the most common mistakes marketers make is that they think their customers and prospects care about them, what they sell and how it works.
The human truth is that consumers think, feel and …
Read MoreBERKO: We’re all tobacco addicts
Dear Mr. Berko:
I have $23,000 that I want to invest for income and growth. I asked my broker about the tobacco stocks, because they show pretty good yields. He told me the tobacco industry …
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