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Celebrating 20 years of Forty Under 40

For the past 20 years, the Business Record has celebrated Forty Under 40. The honor has long recognized up-and-coming business leaders and the powerful impact young professionals make in Greater Des Moines. 

Each of these …

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NOTEBOOK: Grand Rapids bus partnership blooms

The Greater Des Moines Partnership recently hosted a Nov. 20 meeting of its Transit Future Work Group that featured officials from Grand Rapids, Mich., a metro area of nearly 1 million. 

The city’s bus service, …

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Business Record 12-6-19

Celebrating 20 years of Forty Under 40

Focus: Building & Construction 

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Dec. 6 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Dec. 6 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories at businessrecord.com/insider and …

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2019 Leaders Survey – Light Rail

Each year we get a pulse on key issues affecting the region’s business community from our audience of leaders. This is the eighth year the Business Record has asked for your thoughts.

We asked a …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Climate change and consumer trends are changing the Christmas tree industry

Confession: I have never gone shopping for a live Christmas tree. My parents switched to artificial trees somewhere after deducing that three kids, three dogs and a live tree might pose a fire risk. They …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: What should I do about the workaholic who works for me?

If we aren’t the workaholics ourselves, we lead one. In today’s age of being constantly connected, it’s easy to work around the clock. But as managers, we have to be cognizant of how often employees …

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NOTEBOOK: A brief listing of languages heard in Iowa

In the last couple of months for the Business Record and dsm Magazine’s upcoming Lifting the Veil magazine, I’ve enjoyed talking to quite a few organizations in the metro area interacting with newly arrived or …

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NOTEBOOK: Some insights from Bank Iowa’s new culture and onboarding campaign

I recently visited Bank Iowa’s new headquarters in West Des Moines — both to see how the bank had repurposed its new leased office space on Jordan Creek Parkway, and to hear about the new …

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Curtain call

From the opening curtain of the interview, John Viars made it clear that he was but a cog in part of the Des Moines Community Playhouse’s initial 100-year run that produced more than 1,000 shows …

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