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Vision 2024 trends to watch
The Business Record works every day to find the pulse that’s driving business news throughout our state and to make sense of it and provide you, our audience, a variety of perspectives. Our newsroom aims …
Read MoreOn Leadership: Building trust a top leadership priority in 2024
“Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest,” said famed business executive and author Seth Godin.
I was recently reminded of Godin’s words as I addressed our team at …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Tax cut land mines
The late Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor encouraged people to “solve relevant problems,” as her son recently reminded us.
It’s a timely message, and one Iowa lawmakers should take to heart, given the amount …
Read MoreBusiness Record 12-29-23
Cover Story: BPC’s 2023 News Changemakers talk about their goals, strategies for the future
Focus: Year in Review
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Read MoreCownie recalls dad’s advice, city’s achievements, as he prepares to leave office
Frank Cownie remembers getting a call from his dad, who wanted to offer some advice as Cownie’s first City Council campaign came to a close. It was the same day his dad died, just before …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Caucus polls’ fine print
“Do you read the fine print?” asked my friend K.C., when I saw him standing inside Jaume Plensa’s “Nomade” sculpture in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park.
It seemed an odd question, given that …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Jacki Boldt
When the Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program came to Iowa in 2018, it wasn’t expected to stay. Iowa was one of two states selected to pilot a statewide model of the program, which normally …
Read MoreBusiness Record 12-22-23
Cover Story: Cownie recalls dad’s advice, city’s achievements, as he prepares to leave office
Focus: Retail
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Read MoreBusiness Record 12-15-23
Cover Story: The top business headlines of the past 40 years
Focus: 20/40 Anniversary Issue
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Read MoreConnie Wimer: A lifetime of defying – and disrupting – expectations
For much of Connie Wimer’s life, the founder and owner of Business Publications Corp. has taken the road less traveled. Usually, it worked out, but even when it didn’t, her failures kept things interesting and …
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