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Summit results in Iowa Black Business Consortium
By Angela Holmes CEDAR RAPIDS—Organizers of the 2014 Iowa Black Business Summit created exactly what they intended to – a plan for the future. According to Diversity Focus Executive Director Chad Simmons, the Iowa Black Business Consortium was formed at…
Managing people? Repetition works. Repetition works.
Dennis Schrag/Tree Full of Owls Penny. Knock, knock, knock. Penny. Penny. Knock, knock, knock. Penny.…
Downtown IC business incubator is one step closer
By Gigi Wood The Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD) received an important thumbs-up last…
Kirkwood signs on as anchor tenant for NewBo City Market
CEDAR RAPIDS – Kirkwood Community College has signed to become the anchor tenant in the…
Dutch jeweler opens own store in North Liberty
Hopes to stay in U.S. to run business By Gigi Wood NORTH LIBERTY – Everyone…
Take time to reflect as 2012 begins
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls In an earlier article, we took a rather comprehensive overlook…
Is it important who controls the message?
Heather Rast/Tree Full of Owls What happens to your brand in social media? Interesting question.…
Red Avocado to be razed, Golden Haug moves
By Gigi Wood IOWA CITY – The Red Avocado,521 E. Washington St., a restaurant that…
Study points out potential flaws of TIF system
By Gigi Wood A recent report will be the centerpiece of a meeting on tax…
Do your recognition efforts pass the test?
Gale Mote/Tree Full of Owls In 1986, I was working as a master production scheduler…
35 apply for SSMID board seats
Thirty-five people have applied for as many as 19 seats on the board that will…
Celebrating the land between two rivers
John Langhorne/Tree Full of Owls Steven Bloom recently wrote an article that ran on the…
Diversity Focus shifts mission, searches for new leader
By Pat Shaver From awareness to action. That’s the new mission for Diversity Focus, a…
Coaching an attitude problem
Gale Mote/Tree Full of Owls One of the most frequent requests I receive from managers…
Is social media in your 2012 plan?
Lynn Manternach/Tree Full of Owls Has your company joined the social media community yet? Whether…
Downtown IC SSMID passes, board nomination forms available
The Iowa City City Council last night approved the third and final reading for a…
