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So Why All The Hysteria About Kansas Schools?If you set aside the emotional issues that underpin the debate, the numbers and facts completely reframe the discussion.OK, let’s start this essay with a quiz: Who makes more, the departing superintendent of…
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Lockton, the world's largest privately held independent insurance brokerage, announced this morning that Glenn Spencer would become president and chief executive officer next May, when John Lumelleau retires. Lumelleau has been at he helm during much of Lockton's rise from…
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Kansas City-based Husch Blackwell announced this morning that it would merge with Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek, a business and litigation law firm from Milwaukee, effective July 1. The combined firm will keep the Husch Blackwell name, officials said, will give Husch…
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No love, no relationship—and no sale. Do you love sales? Do you love what you do? Do you love your product? Do you love your company? Do you love your customers? These are not questions I pulled out of the…
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Even before the first passenger has taken a seat, the Downtown streetcar shows us why buried rails were best left untouched. At $102 million, it’s an expensive lesson. A video posted on The Kansas City Star Web site reminds us…
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What makes an Icon of Education? Not longevity alone, though some of this year’s honorees have been at the practice since 1968. No, it’s more than that: It’s part passion, part call to serve, part intellectual curiosity and part executive…
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From demographic changes to distance learning, regional universities are feeling the effects of sweeping change on a declining pool of eligible students. They are not, however, taking those changes lying down. It’s a projection that must inspire night sweats for…
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Park University turns to a leader with a background in both business and distributed learning Park University’s new president comes to Kansas City after a five-year stint at Webster University in St. Louis, and before that, nine years at the…
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From countless sources of inspiration, a call to serve is common cause for those who have made health care their vocation and avocation. For some, the call to a health-care career started with the impressions left by a mother coming…
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A graying work force implies an executive population with its own bone and joint health issues—and the task of managing similar conditions with their employees. Throughout its days of youth and into what’s now popularly referred to as the Silver…
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