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ONE GOOD READ: How to hire someone you’ve never met in person

Harvard Business Review: The shift to remote hiring, whether voluntary or not, has brought with it not only new opportunities but new challenges as well. When we are making hiring decisions, we’ve traditionally done that only …

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ONE GOOD READ: Attrition is the one piece of data your company needs to track to improve diversity efforts

Fast Company: Leaders across all industries are challenged to retain great employees, uncover new talent and ensure diversity across the company. In order to do this, they track metrics such as hiring rates, salary and bonuses, …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Will incentives spur remote workers to pull up stakes?

Having recently spent a week in northwestern Arkansas for some camping, I thought this New York Times article about incentives that some regions of the country are offering to attract remote workers was interesting. Among them, the …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Pockets: Women — and girls — want them included in their clothes

I formed a fondness for pockets at a young age. They were a place to stuff things — tissue, bugs and worms, my prized transistor radio, and of course, my hands. In elementary school, the …

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Leaders of proposed soccer stadium project see it as community connector

Editor’s note: This piece was also published as part of a regular column I write as a member of the Downtown Chamber’s marketing committee. 

A site that has been an eyesore for decades for both …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: 2021 grads face increased opportunities in job market, but face increased competition, too

Do you know someone who will be graduating from college this spring? The good news is the number of jobs available is higher than it was before the coronavirus pandemic shut things down last  year. …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Take a tour through a Des Moines barber’s basement video store

I saw it first through TikTok: Erin Hogan’s short digital tour through the basement video store her husband, Brian, built mid-pandemic to display around 5,000 DVDs, 1,500 VHS tapes and 400 laser discs collected over …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Humility as a leadership superpower

Being humble may not seem like an obvious CEO trait, but the best leaders readily recognize that they don’t have all the answers, writes Silicon Valley CEO and author Sabrina Horn. “The best leaders have …

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NOTEBOOK: Home sales in Greater Des Moines area continue to be strong

Home sales in the Greater Des Moines area continued to be robust in March, with 1,256 residential properties sold, 19.5% more than a year ago, Des Moines Area Association of Realtors data shows.

 

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Chess grandmaster, gambits — and chairs

One of the best new miniseries released in recent months was Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” which follows the life of an orphan who learned to play chess from a janitor at the group home where she …