Opinion

DSC 6869

OUR VIEW: Wal-Mart takes art over health


Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is providing a classic study in the question of what a company owes to its employees vs. what it owes to its community.

An organization called Walmart Watch, which keeps its teeth …

DSC 6869

TRANSITIONS: Cut trillions? Can do


Eight of us sat down at a table at Drake University the other night and lopped $4 trillion out of the nation’s budget deficit across the next 10 years. It took about an hour and …

DSC 6869

IowaBiz Blog: The sacrifice of leadership

DSC 6869

IowaBiz Blog: Just get up!

DSC 6869

IowaBiz Blog: The staircase approach to building a business

DSC 6869

IowaBiz Blog: Customer service rule number one

DSC 6869

OUR VIEW: Workers want more than ‘a job’


Everyone in the American business community is aware of the ongoing unemployment problem, but research suggests we would be wise to focus on underemployment as well.

The Great Recession and its seemingly endless aftermath have …

DSC 6869

TRANSITIONS: First comes the eulogy, then come the revisions


I didn’t pay much attention to blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan until after he died, and now I’ve gone and done the same thing with Steve Jobs. So if you know of anybody named Steve …

DSC 6869

GUEST OPINION: Another side of the credit union cap


The Business Record’s Oct. 14 editorial “Credit union cap should be raised” presented one side of the story about credit unions’ desire to increase their commercial lending authority. Before you decide on the issue, you …

DSC 6869

IowaBiz Blog: Aim for the top