Opinion

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Guest Opinion: Community leadership lessons from the Chicago Cubs

BY JESSICA MALDONADO | Public policy manager, PolicyWorks LLC
As a lifelong Cubs fan, watching the Cubs win the World Series in the most dramatic fashion brought a range of emotions. With the happiness also…
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The Elbert Files: Things we’ve never seen before

With Donald Trump, everything is the best or the worst, the most amazing or an absolute disaster. There is no gray, no shading, no subtleties. For much of the past year, the Republican candidate for …

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Leaders Survey 2016

For our annual Business Record Leaders Survey, we surveyed the Business Record audience on 16 business issues in order to capture the pulse of our readers.

Below we have the results of all the questions …

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Guest Opinion: How to make strong choices

BY CHRISTI HEGSTAD | President, MAP Professional Development Inc.    Do you ever come home from a long day, hear someone ask you what’s for dinner, and feel like you might explode from the pressure of…
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The Elbert Files: Unrealistic expectations

One of the many fallacies of the 2016 election is a belief that politicians can significantly increase the growth rate of the U.S. economy. 

To be sure, the current slowdown is one of the most …

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Guest Opinion: A lesson from nonprofits about women in leadership

BY MICHELLE BOOK | President and CEO, Food Bank of Iowa
It is an exciting time to be a woman. History is being made, and we are all a part of it. Women are breaking…
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The Elbert Files: Redesigning workplaces

“You can’t get people to think better, or be smarter or more clever by offering them more money,” Iowa architects were told last month during the annual meeting of the Iowa Chapter of the American …

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Guest Opinion: The dangers of being busy, and what to do about it

  BY KATHLEEN RIESSEN | Partner, Measured Intentions

A weird thing happened in the month of September. It was busy. And I don’t mean sort of busy, I mean packed full of meetings, networking events,…
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The Elbert Files: Lawyer unwinds red tape

Des Moines immigration lawyer Marina Grabchuk is motivated by her own family’s story. She was 7 years old when her Ukrainian homeland broke off from the Soviet Union and 13 when she arrived in the …

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Guest Opinion: Strong women lift each other up

BY BRIANNE FITZGERALD | Communications and engagement officer, Volunteer Iowa
I was blown away when I read the July 25 Lift IOWA article in response to a recent survey asking women if they have witnessed “queen bee” behavior, or…