Latest Issue: JUNE 2021
Cover Story
Fun Is Our Business: 10 Companies Tell What It Took to Survive in a Year That’s Been Anything but Fun!
Over the past year — more than a year! — we’ve learned how much we owe to the “essential workers” who ensure we have the goods and services to keep ourselves alive. With light beginning to shine at the end of a long and lonely tunnel, we can … [More]
Features
Workplace Stress: Facts and Fictions
Heavy workloads, team conflicts, miscommunications, struggles to balance work and home, and job insecurity — it’s no wonder we’ve come to believe that workplace stress is inevitable. That first fiction, that workplace stress is inevitable, leads us … [More]
Connections Are Business Capital
LinkedIn has more than 575 million users, according to leading WordPress hosting platform Kinsta, and nearly half of those are active every month (meaning they post, comment or “like” on the platform). If that isn’t impressive enough, LinkedIn has … [More]
Televëda Helps Seniors Combat Isolation
Shruti Gurudanti has a commitment to combating isolation that comes from a very personal place. In her youth, she watched her own grandparents suffer from seclusion. During those difficult times, she realized that older adults experience a massive … [More]
Exploring the Possibilities
In the previous article, embracing change, our topic surrounded acceptance that change was all around us and here to stay. Rather than running from the unknown, we should embrace it and look for new opportunities to move forward. Once we’ve have made … [More]
Virtual Meetings – Beyond the Camera
Remote work, virtual Zoom meetings, hybrid meetings — it’s all been so sudden, impactful and, to many, intimidating and overwhelming. Few people would likely ever have thought we would all need to master the art of on-camera performance, lighting, … [More]
Roundtable
Second Chance Hiring Can Transform Business
As businesses emerge from the setbacks of the pandemic, they are increasingly challenged to find the workforce they need to grow. Much of this is … [More]
Economy
Tax Advantage: Employee Retention Credit
As part of the CARES Act introduced in 2020, Congress created a new tax credit to incentivize employers to keep workers on the payroll during the … [More]
Legal
Changes to Arizona’s Legal Landscape Put Local Businesses in Uncharted Territory
Arizona blazed new legal trails this year by becoming one of the first states to permit non-lawyers to share fees with lawyers and also own law firms. … [More]
Nonprofit
Talent Management Reimagined
While attracting great talent and reducing staff turnover is a persistent challenge in often financially constrained nonprofit organizations, there are solutions. The key is to think holistically. Taking a holistic approach to talent management … [More]
From the Top
Ibrahim Mesbah and Andreas Ronneseth: e-Commerce Revolutionaries
Ibrahim Mesbah and Andreas Ronneseth graduated from Arizona State University and, together, are changing the way people are buying and selling auto parts. In 2014, the pair co-founded RevolutionParts … [More]
Startups
MadeMay: Matchmaking Artist and Client
MadeMay is a startup bringing back the human touch to art, giving thoughtful people around the world an opportunity to get custom, hand-made art. Customers can upload a photo, describe what they want … [More]
Cyber Dive: Free Social Media Monitoring Tool for Parents
Cyber Dive offers a free web-based app that helps strengthen relationships by allowing parents to easily view their children’s social accounts, understand their online activity and interests and … [More]
CRE
The Importance of the ‘Third Place’ In Multifamily Developments
Ray Oldenburg, an American urban sociologist, coined the term “third place” in his book The Great Good Place. He identified that in modern societies, time is primarily spent in our first place (home) and our second place (work). He introduced the … [More]
George Oliver’s Experiential Offices
Even amid a pandemic, local developer George Oliver is flush with new tenant interest across its office portfolio — but with a very common requirement. Prospective tenants all want the kind of experiential, next-generation office space that George … [More]
Industrial/Logistics Building Breaks Ground in Buckeye
LGE Design Build, a full-service design and general contracting firm and winner of AZ RED 2021 General Contractor of the Year, broke ground recently on a new state-of-the-art industrial project in the City of Buckeye being developed by Phoenix-based … [More]
Healthcare
The State of Telehealth – Booming!
It’s referred to by many terms in our industry: virtual care, telehealth, telemedicine, virtual health and remote care. No matter what we may call it, one thing is for certain — it’s here to stay! At eVisit, we call it virtual care, namely to … [More]
Technology
Meeting the Call for Digital Transformation
The past year has seen an incredible increase in the interest in and demand for home-based work. Companies saw that many traditional office-bound jobs … [More]
By the Numbers
Rocky Mountain Region’s Middle Market Recovering Faster Than National Average
A collaboration between Dietrich Partners, a Denver-based management consulting firm, and the National Center for the Middle Market, housed at The … [More]
Briefs
Keeping Up the Momentum amid a Pandemic
The NB Pure team has been busy over the last year. The brand got a packaging makeover, launched a new supplement, Zinc Up, and brought forth a new product, Daily Multi-Fiber. All of this achieved during a global pandemic while business slowed around … [More]
New Hard Seltzer Is Branded ‘Personality in a Can’
Local beverage industry veterans Sheldon Wiley and Eric Burdick recently launched a new “hard seltzer sensation” exclusively in Phoenix. Engagingly named Becky and sporting a tagline of “personality juice,” it is currently available in four flavors: … [More]
Why Phoenix Is the Perfect Market for Expansion
When evaluating new markets throughout the U.S. for our company’s expansion, we look at a number of factors that include population demographics, physical environment and socio-economic data. For Boss Security Screens, these are important elements as … [More]