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Opinion

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Guest opinion: The impact of one habit

By Daphne Christensen | Brand strategist, Entrepreneurial Technologies 

I recently did a great big one-eighty — with my career and my closet. I’m defining a one-eighty as simply making a big change in one’s position, opinion, lifestyle, etc.…

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Guest opinion: YPs, own your personal brand

By Susan Elder | HR generalist, Strategic America 

Advancing yourself as a young professional is difficult whether you’re just launching your career or seeking a promotion. Even with a great resume — including leadership positions and …

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Guest opinion: Priorities — Check, one, two

By Blair Ryan | Co-founder, Standard Manner

“Nothing in this life is ever guaranteed” is something we have all heard and would like to think doesn’t apply to us. No matter how firm, confident or healthy …

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The Elbert Files: City Hall steps up

“You can’t fight city hall” is an old saying that we know is not true. People do it all the time and win. 

But what about the next level? 

Can city hall fight state government …

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Guest opinion: The Purple Sneaker Club

By Susan Hatten | Senior manager, corporate community engagement, Holmes Murphy 

During the summer of 1988, my family moved from Des Moines to Ida Grove, a small town in northwest Iowa – population at the time, 2,200 Iowans…
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Guest opinion: The cost of waiting

By Kathleen Riessen | Speaker, facilitator and business adviser 

I’ll never forget the moment right before we found out Josh and I were pregnant. Our goal was to be parents. We were trying to have a …

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The Elbert Files: O. Kay Henderson

O. Kay Henderson is something of a throwback. 

Not since the Des Moines Register’s legendary George Mills covered the Iowa Statehouse in the 1950s and ’60s has a reporter covering Iowa’s political and economic storms …

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Guest opinion: The toll of decision fatigue

By Christi Hegstad | President, MAP Professional Development

My son came home from practice recently with a seemingly simple question, one I’ve answered many times before: “What’s for dinner?”

On this particular day, however, that seemingly simple …

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Guest opinion: Lessons after the fog

By Stephanie Majeran | Owner, Well Run Results

Almost exactly two years ago, I officially started my entrepreneurship journey. Even before it began, I distinctly remember saying on many occasions, “I don’t really know where I’m going …

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The Elbert Files: An unusual mentor

Joe Rosenfield was a rare bird. 

George Drake explains just how unusual the Des Moines businessman was in a new biography, “Mentor: Life and Legacy of Joe Rosenfield.”  

Rosenfield is remembered today as the …