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Guest Opinion: Leaders need to build community — Why it’s harder than ever

This semester I am teaching an undergraduate management course, and I found myself perplexed. Most students come into class 10-15 minutes early and open their laptops or only look at their cellphones. They rarely greet …

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Guest Opinion: It’s all about R-E-S-P-E-C-T

BY TERRI JENSEN | Chief information officer, Holmes Murphy  

All right…truth time. Did you just sing that title in your head? It’s OK if you did. I’ve been singing it all day since I …

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The Elbert Files: Eulogy for a storied bar

Dorothy Gabriel, owner of the former Office Lounge, “died peacefully in her sleep” on June 15, according to her obituary. She was 85.  

Dorothy, which is what everyone called her, was one of a …

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Guest Opinion: 7 questions to transform your style

BY EMILY ABBAS | Chief marketing officer and chief of staff, Bankers Trust Co.
Our technology-filled lives provide us more access than ever before to career advice. What I’d like to share with you is…
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The Elbert Files: Rebuilding bookselling

The bookselling industry was in disarray when Alice Meyer opened Beaverdale Books 10 years ago. Roughly 60 percent of the nation’s independent bookstores had folded during the previous 15 years. In fact, the month after …

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The Elbert Files: Rebuilding bookselling

The bookselling industry was in disarray when Alice Meyer opened Beaverdale Books 10 years ago. Roughly 60 percent of the nation’s independent bookstores had folded during the previous 15 years. In fact, the month after …

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Guest Opinion: Ways to make work/life balance work

BY KRISTI KNOUS | President, Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
As I reflect on the last month alone, I can’t count the number of times I almost fell off the tightrope. 

You know the…
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The Elbert Files: Why government is inefficient

Des Moines lawyer Leon Shearer has written a book that most people will find boring but which should be required reading for all elected officials in Iowa.

The title is “A Management Handbook for Public …

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Guest Opinion: Change a bad situation with diplomacy

In the fifth installment of her six-part series about how her experience waiting tables has served her well throughout her career, Andrea Hansen talks about how accountability and diplomacy can often turn a bad situation …

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Guest Opinion: Simply showing up speaks volumes

  BY JESSICA DUNKER | President, Iowa Restaurant Association   Last month a friend of mine invited me to an event she hosted to promote her business. I am not actually one of her customers,…