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10 companies to participate in Small Business Success Summit pitch competition
Ten companies will participate in the pitch competition held during the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Small Business Success Summit next week for a total of $15,000 in cash prizes. The pitch competition is new to …
Read MoreBeloved professor James McCullagh leaves $1.1M legacy gift to student scholarships
James McCullagh, a longtime professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa who died in 2022, left a $1.1 million legacy gift to provide financial support for students pursuing a social work major at the …
Read MoreDoing the Extraordinary
Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group
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Jason Brown, Director…Read MoreThe Label Game
BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International
Those sales people
Those engineers
Those IT people
Those executives
Those millennials
Those baby boomers
When you heard these group labels, what were you thinking? Did you feel defensive …
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Be an Investor? – Part Two
Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group
An investment, at least in the relational or social sense, is something that:
Involves our most precious resources – time, energy (creativity, emotion, work) and, often, money.…Read MoreDo More With Less: Three Tips to Handle the Industrial Workforce Shortage
BY JEFF HAYES, Solution Consultant – Lifecycle Services, Van Meter Inc.
By 2025, it is expected that 2.7 million baby boomers will retire, and two million jobs will go unfilled. If this is correct, doing …
Read MoreWhat Motivates You To Do A Good Job?
BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International
There are two types of motivation: internal and external. To understand the difference, reflect on this question: What motivates you to do a good job?
If you’re like most …
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Be an Investor? – Part One
Jason Brown, Director of Advisor Success, Foster Group
For a minute, I want to think broadly about the question, “What does it mean to be an investor?”
I’ve invested in my relationship with my …
Why is forgiveness so hard?
BY ROWENA CROSBIE, president, Tero International
Can you finish this sentence? To err is human, to …
Did you say, to forgive is divine?
“To err is human, to forgive is divine” is an old proverb …
Read MoreFour Reasons You Need a Cybersecurity Plan
BY JACKIE LA FLEUR, Customer Service Manager – Industrial End User, Van Meter Inc.
Your coworker is working from home. As the workday winds down, he orders dinner online, adds some groceries to his cart …
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