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The Elbert Files: Redesigning workplaces

“You can’t get people to think better, or be smarter or more clever by offering them more money,” Iowa architects were told last month during the annual meeting of the Iowa Chapter of the American …

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Guest Opinion: The dangers of being busy, and what to do about it

  BY KATHLEEN RIESSEN | Partner, Measured Intentions

A weird thing happened in the month of September. It was busy. And I don’t mean sort of busy, I mean packed full of meetings, networking events,…
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The Elbert Files: Lawyer unwinds red tape

Des Moines immigration lawyer Marina Grabchuk is motivated by her own family’s story. She was 7 years old when her Ukrainian homeland broke off from the Soviet Union and 13 when she arrived in the …

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Guest Opinion: Strong women lift each other up

BY BRIANNE FITZGERALD | Communications and engagement officer, Volunteer Iowa
I was blown away when I read the July 25 Lift IOWA article in response to a recent survey asking women if they have witnessed “queen bee” behavior, or…
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The Elbert Files: Disrupting the auto industry

What they say about the power of Tesla’s electric car is true. Going from zero to 60 mph in less than three seconds snapped my head back, even when I knew it was coming.

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Opinion: The nuanced design behind gender equality

BY LORI CHESSER | Partner and department chair, Davis Brown Law Firm   Despite so many improvements, gender equality in the workplace (let alone in other parts of life) often seems like a chimera: something that…
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The Elbert Files: Bad corporate cultures

By now, I’m guessing few people believed Wells Fargo chief John Stumpf when he said last week there was nothing wrong with the corporate culture of the nation’s largest bank after employees deliberately bilked more …

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The Elbert Files: Film explores historic highway

A new film that credits Des Moines publisher E.T. Meredith as founder of the long-forgotten Jefferson Highway will be shown for the first time at 6 p.m. tonight (Sept. 23) at the Iowa State Historical …

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Guest Opinion: Why I came back to Des Moines

A great deal of my boyhood was spent with my father, Doug Reichardt, in the boardrooms of United Way of Central Iowa, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and Holmes Murphy & Associates. 

A subject of …

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Guest Opinion: Building a personal board of directors

BY MANDI McREYNOLDS | Global community relations manager, Principal Financial Group Inc.   Goodbye, mentorship

“Who is your mentor? You don’t have one. What? You should have one! Make sure they are experienced, have time, and…