"Phenomenal . . . Breakthrough is beyond imagination! Tony Robbins has created a television masterpiece… riveting, wonderful, inspiring and humbling!"
Larry King
Host of Larry King Live
Here is a great 5 minute interview where Tony discusses how to make it through the tough times ahead. Must listen to this. Take resposibility, and start doing things better.
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Committee member Eric Thomas stated that “This event will be a great forum to hear from and talk to state, local, and federal government representatives on financing for your business, working with governmental agencies and opportunities in new markets. We’re also excited that leaders from the community will be on hand to discuss their stories on entrepreneurship and the challenges small business owners and entrepreneurs face today.”
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – MyEntre.Net, Iowa’s online community for Iowa entrepreneurs and small business, has announced the launch of the new ‘Dream Big Grow Here’ contest for entrepreneurs and small businesses in Iowa. Starting in June, businesses statewide can compete monthly to win $1,000 to help bring their business concept to reality or help their business to grow here in Iowa.
Letter From the Editor:
Counting Down to 100
By: Robert SafianJune 1, 2010
My grandfather used to paint. He wasn't particularly good at it, but he found it calming. He would also make collages with found objects. I look at his work sometimes and try to figure out the stories he was trying to tell (he's been gone for 35 years). I see something different every time.
My grandfather wasn't an artist. He had a dressmaking business. If you looked at him, you wouldn't have guessed he was a creative person. He was conservative in his bearing, his style. But he did design most of the clothing his firm produced.
That's the way creativity is: plainly obvious or visible only from the right vantage point.
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"Saluting our WWII Veterans from America's Heartland" World War II Veterans, we are promoting an Honor Tour to Washington, D.C. to see your memorial at no cost to you. Our next WWII Honor Tour is planned for Sept. 2010. |
New company will bring more than 80 jobs to Mount Pleasant.
By REX L. TROUTE
rtroute@thehawkeye.com
MOUNT PLEASANT IOWA — Thursday afternoon's glad-handing at the Howe Student Activity Center was a community's business version of victory as Mount Pleasant officially welcomed Biomedical Synergies to its friendly borders. The goal of bringing 87 jobs to the city in the next five years was received with open arms.
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:51 AM by Steve Veres
Filed Under: Celebs
Looks like you've got a fan in a high place, Willard.
During a stop at Jerry's Family Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, President Barack Obama greeted Frances Asher, 107.
Farm-fresh opportunity President tours Mount Pleasant organic farm
By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com
MOUNT PLEASANT IOWA — Morgan Hoenig never thought she would wind up back in her hometown after college. A graduate of Luther College who studied history, Spanish and international studies, Hoenig didn't anticipate going into the organic farming business, either. Mostly, though, she couldn't have expected her unlikely career path would someday earn her a presidential visit.
Make Plans To Attend The Heartland GreenUp Symposium and Expo – May 5 in Des Moines or Virtually
All the buzz from both coasts is landing in Iowa through a ground breaking event. Please help spread the word and also register to attend!
The Heartland GreenUp Symposium and Expo will take the discussion of sustainability from America’s coasts to its Midwest, as over a dozen nationally known experts converge in Iowa on May 5. Thought-leaders from HP, Google, and the EPA will headline the symposium on Sustainable IT, Datacenter Re-Engineering and Green Energy.
Who's Attending? Who Should Attend?
CEOs, CFOs, Sustainability Czars and high-level business strategists, tasked with leading organizations through the upcoming economic and regulatory minefield, spawned by a troubled world economy and fast-changing regulatory postures towards carbon, power, fuels and waste.
CIOs and IT decision-makers – especially those with a mandate to rein in rising power, compute, networking, storage and facilities costs.
Government officials, regulators, public-utility decision makers and others tasked with understanding business needs, incentivizing progress, evolving regulatory regimes and aligning government practice with sustainable energy goals.
Investors and Entrepreneurs, looking to aim capital, innovation and energy at 'sweet spots' in the new economy.
Academics, Scientists, Researchers, Engineers, Business-Process specialists, Teachers and other professionals looking to mark trends, fathom cross-disciplinary connections and network with top thinkers leading the Green Tech revolution.
IowaWorks Central Iowa,
The Des Moines Register, 2 The Top Career Advancement Strategies and Registered Apprenticeship
Proudly Present the: 
Click here to see the full event information.
| The Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) is committed to supporting the vibrancy of Iowa’s developing entrepreneurial community. The IDED’s Innovation and Commercialization Division coordinates Iowa’s efforts in the biosciences, information technology, and advanced manufacturing industries. Their mission is to grow Iowa’s economy by fostering entrepreneurship and supporting the workforce, commercialization, and marketing activities of these industries.
The IDED and its many partners provide critical resources in support of Iowa’s developing entrepreneurial community overall, and especially within the targeted industries of biosciences, information technology, and advanced manufacturing. We ask you to join us in our efforts to provide the best possible resources to Iowa entrepreneurs by taking approximately 10 minutes to fill out a brief survey. Your opinions are very important! Your critical feedback will impact the range of services, opportunities and resources the IVCEC is able to offer to Iowa entreprenuers in the future. If you have questions, please contact: Diane Nelson |
March 23rd, 2010 | Leadership
I met an interesting woman, Natalie Wood (not the deceased actress) who’s focusing her career on the subject of Thought Leadership. I asked her to cover the topic with me in a Q&A.
Read on to learn more about what thought leadership is; why businesses should care; examples of thought leadership in business; and how to leverage thought leadership marketing.
Q: What is your definition of Thought Leadership?
Click here to find out.
Knowledge@Wharton, 02.04.10, 03:35 PM EST
The final word from Davos isn't exactly encouraging.
Delegates to the just-ended World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, found plenty of positive economic signs–but not enough to keep them from wringing their hands. The consensus at the five-day gathering called for strong growth in emerging markets like China, India and Brazil, and poor growth in Japan and much of Europe, with the United States somewhere in between. The Forum's official statement called the global recovery "fragile." (See Wharton management professor Michael Useem's op-ed on the event.)
Nouriel Roubini, a New York University economics professor who at the Davos meeting three years ago predicted the financial crisis, sent jitters through the meeting with his forecast for a slow recovery worldwide, "subpar growth" and risk of a double-dip, or second recession. Yet most speakers viewed the world as better off than it was a year ago.
The question remains: What's next? Will the world's economic recovery–assuming it has started–follow the hoped-for V pattern, form a less desirable but acceptable U or turn into a much feared W? There was little agreement on how the recovery will proceed. Threats, like panic sparked by a possible government bond default in Greece or Spain, could roil the financial markets and world economy, many said.
One has only to scan news reports from the beginning and the end of the past decade to see how much our language has changed in the interim.
The usual suspects—technology, consumer culture, politics,—were joined by new agents of lexical change: think terrorism, economic instability, and social networking.
Now, at the beginning of a new decade, it's a good time to consider which incipient trends might play out over the coming years.
MOUNT PLEASANT IOWA — A $250,000 award granted by the Iowa Economic Department of Economic Development on Thursday should be good news for the city of Mount Pleasant Iowa. The money goes to Biomedical Synergies Inc., of Wayzata, Minn., out of the Grow Iowa Values Financial Assistance Program. The award should clear a hurdle for the company, which is strongly considering putting its headquarters in Mount Pleasant Iowa.
| How to Jump-Start Your Book – The Book In You
Susan Klopfer, a Hanover College graduate and journalist, moved to the Mississippi Delta in 2003 as the Emmett Till cold case was opened by the F.B.I. and the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Living on the grounds of Parchman Penitentiary where her husband was chief psychologist, a notorious compound with a difficult history, gave her a unique opportunity to take a fresh look at this civil rights ground-breaking event taking place in the Delta and to meet people who still had the region’s history fresh in their hearts and minds. “Talking to people who were part of the modern civil rights movement, learning their stories and hearing of the injustices became a passion leading me to spend long hours researching and writing a book about Till’s murder and the Delta,” she said. Klopfer recently used her business skills to produce an e-book, audio book and print book entitled Who Killed Emmett Till? |
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The book is also available on CD as a pdf file, and the audio version is downloadable for the iPod.
“This book began as a blog and was driven by my passion for learning and sharing stories revolving around the Delta’s important history that could have been lost. And now ‘my book’ has turned into a small, entrepreneurial business. Not only do I sell the book in various formats at the back of the room when I speak, it is sold online and in independent books stores (and soon on Amazon and other online stores). I have developed a strong social networking presence also allowing me to do book publishing seminars and professional book coaching. I love it, because I spend the day working at something that is meaningful to me and that helps others find the book in them, too.” Klopfer’s website is located at www.findthebookinyou.com. |
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Grow Henry County and Susan Klopfer will be presenting a Workshop entitled “How to Jump-Start Your Book – The Book In You” Coming soon this Spring 2010 in Mount Pleasant (Henry County) Iowa. *For more information, contact Susan Klopfer at Phone: 505-728-7924 E-mail: sklopfer@gmail.com |
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 Free informational webinars to Chambers of Commerce and business in the US and Canada.
Information sessions last about 45 minutes. |
Fell free to check out the Mount Pleasant Iowa
Crossroads Interactive Video.
(Located in Henry County Iowa)
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
1:30 – 2:30pm ET
Chambers of Commerce across the South have initiated new programs and initiatives to promote and support green business and sustainability initiatives. This webinar will explore what chamber leaders are seeing across the region as well as learn about specific initiatives such as St. Louis’ Climate Prosperity Project and Chapel Hill’s Green Plus program.
The webinar is free, but pre-registration required.
Register for the webinar here:https://southern.ilinc.com/register/cyxhyzv.
Iowa Business Council Releases First Quarter Results
DES MOINES, IOWA – (March 1, 2010) Increased levels in sales, capital spending, and employment projected for the coming six months has moved the 2010Q1 Iowa Business Council (IBC) Overall Economic Outlook Survey Index (OSI) to 54.3 – its first time in positive sentiment territory since the third quarter of 2008 (six quarters ago). The Overall OSI is more than six points higher than three months ago (47.7), and 19 points higher from one year ago (35.3). The survey was completed by the 20 corporate members of the Iowa Business Council during the second half of February, the results of which were released today.
Click here to read the full article.
An article worth mentioning. These are the “Fast Company” top 10 most innovative companies in China.
Leading the way for the rest of the world. Click here to read more about each company.
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