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Guest opinion: One young professional perspective on return-to-office and hybrid workplaces

Submitted by Gregory Lin

Confused. Relieved. Micro-managed. Excited. Anxious. Indifferent. Ready. These are descriptors young professionals provided when I asked how they feel about returning to the office. 

In a recent survey of over 3,600 …

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The Elbert Files: A 1938 view of Iowa

A new book, “Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America,” traces the work of more than 6,000 out-of-work writers to create travel and information guides for all 48 states …

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On Leadership: Reflections on leading through disruption

The last year and a half has been filled with constant disruption, from the ever-evolving pandemic, economic volatility and amplification of racial equity issues to the election — and for those of us in Iowa, …

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The Elbert Files: COVID’s big-boy pants

“Warren Buffett was a genius.”

Those words came from behind me and were muffled by a face mask. When I turned around I saw the eyes and forehead of my old friend K.C., who had …

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On Leadership: The Leader’s Role in Civil Discourse

Recently I had a conversation with a CEO friend who confessed he was struggling with a member of his leadership team who openly expressed his political views at work and on social media. Not only …

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The Elbert Files: Reclaiming Morrison’s history

During the pandemic lockdown, 78-year-old David Junck, a retired Boone County farmer, did something no one has done in more than 130 years: He built a nearly exact replica of the world’s first functional self-powered …

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The Elbert Files: Spending a windfall

State government is sitting on a windfall of cash that has piled up during the past year as a result of the COVID pandemic.

It could be as much as $2 billion but is more …

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Guest opinion: Pro soccer stadium is a missing piece in downtown D.M.’s puzzle

Submitted by Rick Tollakson, Hallie Still-Caris and Jake Christensen

Picture this: You pick up a guest from the Des Moines International Airport. Maybe this person has never been to Greater Des Moines. Maybe you are …

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The Elbert Files: Josephs’ 150 years

Twenty-five years ago, when Josephs Jewelers celebrated 125 years as a family-owned business, I wrote that education and integrity were its hallmarks.


“The better educated our employees are, the more information they can pass on …

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Marketing: What do you see when you look in the mirror?

2020 was all the buzz words we’ve assigned to it. Unprecedented. Devastating. 


Isolating. Frightening. Costly in all senses of the word.


As we scrambled out of 2020, as business owners and leaders, we were naturally …