Change
Burt Cohen bids adieu to the pages of Twin Cities Business. When the cheering dies down, he'll explain why this is his last column.
August 2009
Keeping Up with Change
If people hate change, as most of us would agree—how come we’re in the midst of some of the most colossal behavioral and sociological changes in history?
July 2009
The Twinkle Is Gone
This community has been truly blessed. So let’s take a moment to say farewell to those who’ve done so much for Minnesota.
May 2009
Sane Compensation
Why have compensation committees of corporate boards lost any semblance of a sense of reality, of appropriateness, of balance when approving executive salaries and bonuses?
April 2009
Don't Forget the Future
All I’m suggesting here is that we stop planning only for next month or next year and start thinking decades ahead.
March 2009
Giving for Good
The more I speak with friends elsewhere, I come to understand and appreciate the pervasiveness of Minnesota’s Spirit of Giving.
February 2009
Score One for Customer Service
Great customer service just doesn’t happen without continuous reminders to our staffs—and to ourselves.
January 2009
Relocated Priorities
Ambition and the drive to succeed are not only great, they’re essential to avoid national stagnation. But those qualities need to be tempered . . .
December 2008
Exceptions May Apply*
I know times are tough, but it doesn’t say much for the integrity of business when it promises the world in large type, then lists close to 50 microscopic exceptions.
November 2008
Bread and Butter Charges
Today, the airlines are rapidly increasing the level of ill will in customers they’ve spent years and vast amounts of money to woo.
October 2008
Who Would You Be?
There are too many people with too many wonderful attributes, whose special qualities are so varied that there is no first-place winner.
September 2008
Thinking Ahead
If history is a trustworthy guide, there's nothing we can do to stop America's inevitable slide from richest and most powerful.
August 2008
Amend Our Legacy
If the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment passes, the funds it raises could not be reassigned—or ripped off—by future political leaders.
July 2008
Bet You Can’t Buy Just One.
June 2008
Buckling under Mass Quantities
Today, it's basically impossible to buy only what you want or need.
June 2008
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