One of the biggest challenges for my clients is hiring and retaining talented employees. David Maister has an excellent post on hiring talented people. In his post David expands on the War for Talent is Back by Bob Sutton of Harvard Business Online.
Thanks to Kevin O’Keefe for pointing out the posts. Kevin runs an
Be sure to catch Des Moines, Iowa patent attorney Brett Trout’s blog this week as he takes center stage among law blogs by hosting Blawg Review.
As pointed out by the editor at Blawg Review, Brett’s blog is worth reading often and adding to your blogrolls and feed readers if you have not already
Rush on Business Podcast No. 5 is an interview with Mike Colwell. Mike is the Executive Director of the Business Innovation Zone of Central Iowa (BIZ). BIZ is a new regional business accelerator through the Greater Des Moines Partnership. If you are an entrepreneur in Central Iowa you won’t want to
Tomorrow I have a podcast interview with Mike Colwell on my BlogTalkRadio channel page. Mike is the Executive Director of the Des Moines Partnership’s new business accelerator, BIZ. The live interview is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. and will be also be available in podcast format on this blog.
Hope you will listen. If you
Judge Rosenberg gave preliminary approval today of a $179.95 million dollar settlement in the Iowa consumer class action against Microsoft. Unlike other settlements across the country, Microsoft has agreed to pay cash to consumers as opposed to vouchers for future purchases of software. As I predicted, the settlement is substantial and actually in line
Stephen R. Hampton, Executive Officer of Wage Payment and Minimum Wage for the Iowa Division of Labor offered up the following to explain the changes to Iowa’s new minimum wage law in the April 2007 edition of the Iowa Lawyer. The law took effect April 1, 2007.
Filewrapper.com is the latest Iowa law blog to hit the blogosphere by the Des Moines law firm of McKee, Voorhees and Sease. The blog will focus on intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other related issues.
Several representatives from MVS attended our Lawpportunities blawg seminar last November. I am glad
A regular reader asked whether I was going to write my annual baseball post. Well, he is in luck and I can actually mix in a little law with it.
If you love baseball and e-commerce law (don’t we all?) you will want to check out Blawg Review #103 from Jonathan Frieden of E-Commerce Law
Doug Mitchell of Moments of Clarity points out that Forbes Magazine has ranked Des Moines as the 4th most desirable place in the U.S. to do business. Doug says it is No. 1 in his book.
Adam Steen of Growth Capitalism writes about the Generation Iowa Commission whose goal is to address the "brain drain"
Drew McLellan of Drew’s Marketing Minute recently celebrated the 1,000th comment on his blog. He now has over 600 blogs linking to him. Quite amazing considering his blog is only seven months old.
Drew is just one of the great business bloggers you can read on the Central Iowa Bloggers News River. For example
