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Gitomer: A resolution formula to excel

New Year’s resolutions are a pain. Lose 20 pounds. Eat better. Get in shape. Join the gym. Run three miles a day. Stop smoking. Stop drinking. Stop (fill in the blank).

NONE of those things …

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McLellan: Shh – it’s a secret

If there’s one marketing tactic that we execute for clients that always yields incredible results, it’s when we secret-shop their operation. Without exception, a secret-shopping program will:

• Provide insights that surprise you (good and …

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A Closer Look: Deon Pitsor

When Deon Pitsor first brought his family to Greater Des Moines in 2006, a friend of a friend dropped the name of a prominent businessman he should contact. Pitsor, an Iowa native who had been …

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Drawing young women to business

Iowa State University’s College of Business is trying to increase the number of women studying business.

About 35 percent of the college’s enrollment is female, a number that’s been static for the past five years, …

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Affordable housing as economic development

The Des Moines area has a chronic shortage of affordable housing, a fact recorded in enough dusty reports to feed wood-burning stoves across the city.

The solution isn’t just to build  more lower-rent units, say …

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Developing economic wish lists for 2015

The new year has just arrived, but three key players in Central Iowa economic-development already are working toward ambitious goals they hope will build on the successes of the past several years. 

The Iowa Association …

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Building a billion dollar bank

Developers who venture into abandoned industrial sites with the ambition to turn them into apartments and hotels need to carry more than their big ideas and a pile of lumber into the project.

They also …

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15 Industry Trends for 2015
15 business leaders from multiple industries provide trends to watch in 2015

Focus: Industry Trends

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Key Leadership Changes

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The Elbert Files: Danger: Iowa caucuses ahead

“Are you ready for a year of living dangerously?” asked my friend K.C. when I ran into him last week at the downtown library. 

“What makes 2015 so dangerous?” I asked.

“The caucuses,” he said. …