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On Leadership: Work is not working for women. What can leaders do about it?

It seems like every week I read a new report on women leaving the workforce and every week I have conversations with women friends who are contemplating quitting their jobs due to burnout. 

Trying to …

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The Elbert Files: Iowa murder mystery

A Hollywood actress, working on location for a major motion picture in a small Iowa town, is bludgeoned to death with a golf club for no apparent reason.

The trail of clues left by the …

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On Leadership: Listen Up! I mean, really listen.

How many times has someone in your work or personal life asked you if you were really listening? I fully admit that sometimes I catch myself nodding when someone says something to me, only to …

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The Elbert Files: Neil Harl, 1933-2021

Neil Harl, who died Nov. 4 at age 88, was quite possibly the smartest person I ever interviewed and definitely the fastest talker.


Harl knew all there was to know about agriculture and finance. 


He …

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The Elbert Files: Killing a golden goose

“They finally did it,” my old friend K.C. said when I caught up with him on the Grand Avenue bridge over Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.


“Did what?” I asked. “Passed a reapportionment plan? 


“They …

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The Elbert Files: Bill Knapp and downtown

“The Making of Bill Knapp,” a new book by Simpson College history professor William Friedricks, includes sketches of 23 people who were key to the 95-year-old real estate developer’s success.

The book begins with quick …

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The Elbert Files: Economic optimism

“We are certainly in uncharted waters,” economist James Paulsen wrote in a recent newsletter that explores topics ranging from inflation to economic policy, employment to productivity, and millennials to downtowns.


Aging baby boomers are being …

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The Elbert Files: Chinese tariff windfall

A new study in the journal Food Policy says U.S. soybean producers received a $5 billion windfall in 2018-19 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture overestimated damage caused by Chinese trade-war tariffs.

“Overall, farmers received …

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On Leadership: Why Breast Cancer Awareness Month matters to business

Brenda Neville, president and CEO of the Iowa Motor Truck Association, launches into high gear during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. “While I am not a survivor of breast cancer, I am a survivor …

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The Elbert Files: Fugitive abortion law

The new Texas abortion law has much in common with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a statute that has been described as “one of the most hated and openly violated federal laws” in U.S. …