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The Insider Notebook

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Dec. 13 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Dec. 20 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories at businessrecord.com/insider and …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Thanking our mentors

Fast Company has a fascinating look at how we acknowledge those who influenced our careers, guided us and helped make us who we are. I have told people for years that former Des Moines Register reporter …

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NOTEBOOK: Eyes in the sky help prevent insurance fraud

I recently interviewed Jared Kirby, who in October was appointed deputy insurance commissioner for market regulation, for an upcoming Closer Look profile. An interesting tidbit from that interview that Kirby relayed to me is the …

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NOTEBOOK: Homebuilder hopes to help build futures by mentoring ex-offenders

Mentoring can take on a new significance when the mentee is spending time behind prison walls. 

Steph Reed, a small-business owner whom I met during a recent employer roundtable event held at the Iowa Correctional …

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NOTEBOOK: Here comes Gen Z … and its high anxiety levels

An interesting story in the Wall Street Journal looked at Generation Z and the high levels of reported anxiety they harbor. Generation Z encompasses those born between about 1995 and 2012, which puts the oldest …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Dec. 13 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Dec. 13 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories at businessrecord.com/insider and …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The email faux pas I didn’t know I needed to know

When I was growing up, my school district had a particular required course for eighth grade students: the etiquette luncheon. We learned business manners, table settings navigation and (for some of us) quick clothes-stain treatments …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Leading Target in the Amazon era

This piece in the Wall Street Journal has many interesting tidbits. Who knew Target CEO Brian Cornell coached high school football while he was a student at UCLA? But perhaps more interesting was what he had …

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NOTEBOOK: Grand Rapids bus partnership blooms

The Greater Des Moines Partnership recently hosted a Nov. 20 meeting of its Transit Future Work Group that featured officials from Grand Rapids, Mich., a metro area of nearly 1 million. 

The city’s bus service, …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Dec. 6 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Dec. 6 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories at businessrecord.com/insider and …