Every organization has them. The employees who are deemed sacred cows by the work force and, like the banks deemed “too big to fail,” are considered by those in leadership “too [fill in the blank] to go.”
Your southern neighbors look at the sheer ugliness of convenience that surrounds Indy-area freeways and say: No way.
Mass transit is also a vital priority for rebuilding urban neighborhoods, giving residents the mobility to connect with jobs and their other daily needs.
To no surprise, the economy and job creation were leading campaign issues in the 2010 gubernatorial elections. As a result, several new governors were elected across the country.
Sometimes, there’s little difference between No. 10 and No. 11—or even No. 25 for that matter.
Your personal network … is what will grant you the most direct access to the people you need to know.
Our organization recently released an economic analysis concluding that, over the next two years, Indiana will dedicate 23 percent of its available funding for highway construction, maintenance and repair to the new-terrain I-69 project.
Why is not our expectation that councilors come up with original ideas and solutions to the daily problems our communities face so we know they are qualified?
It is important to remember that online sales taxes would not be a new tax. Sales taxes are currently owed on every retail purchase made over the Internet—they’re just not being paid.
An Indianapolis Public Schools teacher was overheard saying, “Why should I improve myself through advanced professional training when the state and its providers will fire me next year?”
More than half of all businesses are owned by baby boomers and, while they may be working past age 65, eventually they will retire.
In business, changes in the marketplace drive decisions to turn around a poor-performing business unit, division or entire company.
The latest prolonged recession intensified the push for U.S. productivity gains.
The decision to support the debt limit package, the so-called Budget Control Act, was not an easy one, but one that should be regarded as a meaningful and responsible first step on the path back to economic health.
The Ballard administration is proposing to turn large swatches of the urban core into TIFs, robbing school districts and libraries of desperately needed revenue.
As you might guess, when I got the e-mailed responses, they didn’t support the contention that “everybody knows” the program’s objectives.
The greatest challenge in landing a new gig is making a tremendous shift in perspective.
Over the next 10 years, baby boomers will begin to retire en masse. By 2030, we can expect about 18 percent of Indiana’s population to be age 65 or older, up from 12 percent today.
Creativity comes not from the brilliance of one person, or a singular “ah ha” moment, but from a collision of ideas.
Cell phone users in the United States can’t choose to have radio on our phones because, when the ability to download first threatened the music industry’s business model, the carriers thought including broadcast radio would undermine their ability to sell music packages.
