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If you’re working in a world that pre-dates the 24/7/365 business cycle, you’re out of time. The vast majority of sales professionals—I’m guessing 95 percent or more—try to fit their sales day into a normal workday. They want their day…
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I am privileged to belong to what is rare now and what may one day soon be extinct, and that is a book club for men. Why such clubs may become extinct is no mystery. For the past few decades,…
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January 20-25“Chicago – The Musical”A six time Tony Award winner, two time Olivier Award winner and Grammy winner with performances in the Muriel Kauffman Theatre at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. 816.994.7222 | kauffmancenter.org January 22-25“Kansas City Boat…
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BATS Global Markets, the Lenexa-based securities-trading platform, has announced that it has completed the technological integration of the Direct Edge stock exchanges. Not only was the project completed, BATS said, but it was done without loss of market share, leaving BATS with 20.97 percent of the equities-trading…
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Robert E. Bennett, CEO and Linda K. Bennett, President of Gaither – Bennett, Inc. dba Commworld of Kansas City announce the sale of Commworld of Kansas City to Curtis L. Wiens - Member of Wiensco, LLC. Commworld of Kansas City…
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Cathryn Pridal, who has 32 years of experience as a faculty member, administrator and executive in higher education is Avila University’s new Vice President for Academic Affairs. Her first day on campus is scheduled to be June 15. She assumes…
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Gail Hackett, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 2008, has accepted an appointment as provost of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Hackett will begin her duties at VCU on March 1. VCU has…
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Representatives of the Northland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (Northland CAPS), which includes Kansas City area businesses and six Northland school districts, as well as Metropolitan Community College (MCC) and Northwest Missouri State University gathered today at Cerner World Headquarters…
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In 1989, John McDonald set out to change the palate of beer-drinking in Kansas City. Since then, Boulevard Brewing grew, expanded, rinsed and repeated until it became an acquisition target for Belgian-based Duvel Mortgaat in 2013. But not until this…
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The San Francisco Giants hold on to beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. Giants ace pitcher and World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner came in to preserve the one run lead and compile…
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