McLellan: Delivering bad news

It’s inevitable. We are going to screw up and have to share that with our customers, our prospects and, in many cases, our employees or teammates.

That we will have to do it is a …

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The Elbert Files: Bringing women downtown

David Feehan, who helped make the Downtown Farmers’ Market a success 20 years ago and was instrumental in the redesign of the Martin Luther King Jr. bypass as a welcoming boulevard, has a surprisingly simple …

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More than a building

Last July, when Waldinger Corp.’s acquisition of Wolin Mechanical-Electrical was just settling in, Iowa division President Guy Gast said he expected great things to come of the deal, once all the wrinkles of joining two …

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Newsmaker Q&A: A new lens

Joseph Benesh is an architect who got a taste of strategic planning while he was organizing young professional groups and later decided to make it his career.

Why? He likes to listen, to help people …

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A shrinking inventory

Buyers and sellers are afoot in the state banking industry, and all of that potential merger and acquisition carrying on is not likely to slow anytime soon.

Greater Des Moines bankers say they are seeing …

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Hubbell golf classic tallies a record

Hubbell Realty Co.’s Extreme Charity Golf Classic raised a record-breaking $49,500 for distribution to three local charities, according to a release. Big Brothers Big Sisters, Children’s Cancer Connection and Easter Seals of Iowa will each …

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Multifamily snapshots

Jared Husmann is a young broker at Keller Williams Commercial who, like a lot of youngsters in the business, collects a lot of data. At least one oldish reporter at the Business Record (there aren’t …

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