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Easy to difficult: Focus business development activities

Dennis Schrag/Tree Full of Owls The marketplace for most professional services remains sluggish. Clients are taking a wait-and-see perspective. It is hard to find good...

Volunteerism an excellent way to enhance company image

Mary Jo Finchum/Tree Full of Owls “A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make...

Forty Under 40: Making a difference

By John Kenyon You are about to read about 40 people who work for much more than a paycheck. There are many people out there for...
The Panera site in Coralville as it looked in May.

Panera Bread, Coralville disagree on project’s failure

By Gigi Wood Panera Bread announced plans in May for opening its second Coralville location, at 213 N.First Ave., where Taco Bell was located before...

Teambuilding keeps retention high at MediRevv

By Gigi Wood They have a Peeps show at Easter. MediRevv, a Coralville-based company that uses friendly customer service to collect on unpaid patient bills for...

Build emotional intelligence of your team

Gale Mote/Tree Full of Owls From Aug. 5 until Oct. 20, 2010, 33 Chilean miners successfully endured their hellish conditions because each individual was willing...

Goose Island founder talks about success, Anheuser-Busch acquisition

By Gigi Wood In 1993, he almost lost it all. The Goose Island Beer Co., the largest craft brewer in the Midwest, is on schedule to...

Use this tool to increase your readability

Dennis Schrag/Tree Full of Owls This article has a readability scale of 7.2. I write between the sixth and eighth grade levels. I know my readers....

PLAs: then and now

One year later, PLAs used very differently By Pat Shaver CORRIDOR - This time last year, a project-labor agreement was in place for the University of...

Czech Village streetscape nearing completion

By Pat Shaver One of Cedar Rapids’ most historic neighborhoods and unique business districts could use more visitors. With the ongoing flood recovery, that National Czech...

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