Tiffany Sauder: Drop perfection. Instead, seek vulnerability.
As a young businesswoman, I put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to be perfect. Perfectly prepared. Perfectly dressed. Perfectly presented. Perfectly on time.
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Pete the Planner: Looking for a silver lining? Check your ‘power percentage’
Investing a healthy portion of your income is a good idea in great market years, and it’s an even better idea in bad market years.
Mark Montieth: Road sweet road
Still, NBA road trips are far more grueling than in other professional sports. Teams play four, five, even six or seven games in a row, hopscotching from city to city.
Cecil Bohanon & John Horowitz: Yes, printing money during COVID led to inflation
When the Treasury borrows to finance its excess spending, other borrowers cannot borrow those funds to finance their excess spending.
Editorial: Legislation protects religious groups, same-sex couples
On Tuesday, the Senate approved the bill 61-36, including support from 12 Republicans. Indiana Sen. Todd Young was one of them. Sen. Mike Braun, a Republican who is planning to run for governor, voted no.
Lesley Weidenbener: Fort Wayne turns up the coolness factor
Electric Works is a massive redevelopment of a 39-acre historic campus in the core of Fort Wayne that housed General Electric Co. until it closed in 2014.
Brad Chambers: Indiana corporations need to step up to attract talent
People with talent, curiosity and a strong work ethic are our most valuable resource.
Brad Bostic: Renaissance underway in health tech entrepreneurship
We must continue to implement strategies to support and advocate for entrepreneurs and the companies that are the catalysts for reshaping how the industry operates and how care is delivered.
Letters: Looking for more data points
One small African country does not seem like a good foundation for broad conclusions.
Kim and Lee: Interest rate hikes strip veneer from glamorous growth stocks
Warren Buffett famously said, “It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked.” Indeed, ultra-low interest rates were the tide that lifted all boats.
Bohanon and Horowitz: This Thanksgiving, there’s plenty to be grateful for
Anyone willing and able to work can likely find some kind of employment in today’s economy. And that is always good news.
Mark Montieth: Jeff Saturday has the ‘it factor’
Fans of Indiana sports teams haven’t seen many coaching hires such as this one. It would be helpful if the past results offered a prediction of how Saturday’s Sundays will go, but the results have been mixed.
Editorial: Legislature should consider full funding for public health
Some Hoosiers can’t afford access to quality health care. Others simply need to be prodded to do the right thing and make good choices.
Lesley Weidenbener: Storytelling defines columnist Mike Lopresti’s career
For years, Lopresti has been telling Indiana sports stories in the pages of IBJ—stories about professionals, amateurs and kids. Stories about referees and coaches. Sad stories, funny stories and inspiring stories.
Lamar Holliday: Young people taking rightful place in political space
Let me share some ideas that can get you started in making a difference in your community in the political space.
Cindy Schaefer: Skills-based hiring helps avoid leaving genius on table
It would be extremely easy to sit and wait and expect employers to do the heavy lifting. But as with all cultural and systemic problems, we need to work together—and here’s how.
Kim & Todd Saxton: A successful pitch isn’t always about money
Entrepreneurs have to constantly pitch different things to different people at different stages in the life of their ventures.
Jalene Hahn: Know the signs of financial abuse to protect seniors
Perpetrators of elder theft are often people known and trusted by older adults.
Ilya Rekhter: Bootstrapped: From zero funding to Ford acquisition
My last startup, DoubleMap, was bootstrapped, meaning that we raised zero dollars from inception to our eventual sale to Ford. So venture capital isn’t the only path to a successful outcome.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Fewer children partly attributed to pensions
The world population is now growing at the slowest rate since 1950.