Most Feedback Is Just Noise (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
by Barry Goldberg – 4 days ago
Is it any wonder that the phrase “May I provide you with some feedback?” sets up an emotional loop almost guaranteed to grate on nerves and create stress?
Energy
Bryant Car Wash Purchased for $3.4M 
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This week's installment of million-dollar real estate transactions travels from Bryant through Little Rock and on to Conway.
Trump vs. Biden, and What It All Means to Investors
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Wealth managers and national experts agree that clients' long-term goals, rather than political winds, should drive investment decisions.
10 Communities Share $14M for Water, Wastewater Projects
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Commission awarded $14 million to 10 communities for water and wastewater projects serving more than 8,256 people. read more >
Viola Schools, Today's Power Break Ground on Solar Array
The Viola School District Board of Education did more than going through the motions and seconds at its monthly meeting Sept. 17: It broke ground on a campus-based solar array expected to supply 90% of district electricity needs. read more >
SPP, MISO Partner to Study Improving Coordination Where Grids Meet
Two regional power transmission organizations with a significant presence in Little Rock will partner in a yearlong study of how to increase efficiency and decrease costs in areas where their boundaries interconnect. read more >
Lithium Projects Progress in South Arkansas
South Arkansas' dreams for a high-tech lithium mining industry are looking more real this month, with a Canadian company starting designs for a large-scale commercial extraction plant. read more >
Stephanie Osborne Takes Reins at Arkansas Advanced Energy Association
Stephanie Osborne wouldn't exactly characterize her first weeks as executive director of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association as “settling in.” read more >
Cardboard and Coronavirus (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
Point-and-click commerce, growing even faster during the quarantine, means more and more cardboard is being consumed by shippers and shippees alike. read more >
Central Arkansas Population Stands at 750,000
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area now has a population of about 750,000, according to a report by Metroplan, the planning agency for Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline counties. read more >
The 2020 20 In Their 20's: The Future Looks Bright From Here
From Rogers to Jonesboro to Benton and McCrory, there is bright young talent across our state. For the 11th year, Arkansas Business is proud to introduce 20 of the freshest faces in business and community service. read more >
Arkansas Business Announces 'Best Places to Work' Honorees, Online Event
Arkansas Business will honor more than 40 companies designated among this year's "Best Places to Work" during an interactive online ceremony in November. read more >
SPP Expands Reliability Coordinating Services for Western Grid
Southwest Power Pool is expanding its reliability coordination service in the western United States, adding eight generation resources managed by Gridforce Energy Management. read more >
Black-owned Businesses in the U.S. Make Up 2.2% of Employer-owned Firms
Blacks owned 124,004 employer businesses (firms with at least one paid employee) in 2017, or 2.2% of the 5.7 million employer businesses in the United States, according to the 2018 Annual Business Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
Zimmerman Steps Up at Koontz (Movers & Shakers)
Mark Day has retired as executive vice president of finance at Koontz Electric Co. Inc. in Morrilton. The retirement has made room for the promotion of Matthew Zimmerman. read more >
Walmart Report Touts Progress on Emissions Goals
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville releases its 2020 Environmental, Social and Governance Report. read more >
Lithium Project in El Dorado Defies Pandemic
After six months locked down in Canada, Robert Mintak is itching to fly south to see firsthand how Standard Lithium Ltd.'s pilot plant is doing drawing lithium from Arkansas' underground brine. read more >
Nicholson Selected to Lead Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (Movers & Shakers)
D. Riley Nicholson, the new executive director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, is originally from Hot Springs, but his professional career has taken him all over the country. read more >
Mel Coleman, Diana Holmes Join Today's Power Board
Longtime North Arkansas Electric Cooperative CEO Mel Coleman has been elected to the board of North Little Rock solar energy provider Today's Power Inc., along with Blytheville financial planner Diana Holmes. read more >
Arkansas Unemployment Drops to 7.1% in July
Arkansas' seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 7.1% in July from 8.1% in June, the state Department of Workforce Services reported Friday. read more >
Entergy to Match State's Largest Solar Array, This Time in Lee County
Entergy Arkansas, the state's largest electric utility, is planning one of the state's largest solar power stations, Walnut Bend Solar, near Brinkley along Interstate 40 in Lee County. read more >
Dr. Azhar Invested in Jackson T. Stephens Distinguished Chair
Dr. Gohar Azhar, a nationally recognized expert on cardiovascular aging research with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was recently invested in the Jackson T. Stephens Distinguished Chair in Geriatrics Clinical Affairs. read more >
Order for Keystone Pipeline to Benefit Welspun Work in Little Rock
Welspun Tubular LLC of Little Rock gets an order from TC Energy that's expected to keep 500 people working through at least 2021. read more >
Entegrity Building Eureka Springs Solar Plant; City Expects $750K Savings
Entegrity of Little Rock announces a deal to install a solar power generation system for Eureka Springs that is expected to save the city $750,000 in electricity costs over the next 25 years. read more >
J.B. Hunt Starts Electric Tests
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell made its first delivery with an all-electric tractor Tuesday. read more >
Walmart CTO Tops Executive Compensation List
Walmart CTO Suresh Kumar's experience explains why his total compensation for the first seven months he spent at Walmart made him the highest-paid executive among Arkansas' public companies. read more >
PSC Disapproves Entergy's Revised Solar Power Offering
Entergy Arkansas suffered another regulatory setback Friday in its bid to offer discount solar power to local governments, schools and non-taxed entities like water systems. read more >
Paris Goes Solar, and France Has Nothing to Do With It
West Arkansas' version of the city of lights flipped a symbolic solar switch on Thursday as Paris, Arkansas, partnered with Today's Power Inc. on a 1.5-megawatt municipal solar array that Mayor Daniel Rogers sees as the calling card of a “green community." read more >
Murphy Oil Reports $317M Loss in 'Unprecedented' Quarter
Murphy Oil Corp., which recently announced its corporate move out of El Dorado to Houston, reports a quarterly loss, but one that was not as deep as expected at 71 cents per share. read more >
Arkansas Business Seeks Nominations for CFO of the Year
Arkansas Business is now taking nominations for its annual CFO of the Year Awards. Honorees will be honored during a virtual livestream awards ceremony on Dec. 15. read more >
Agricultural Partnership Goes Solar in Jonesboro
TPI, of North Little Rock, partnered with Craighead Electric Cooperative, Southland Gin Inc. of Lake City and Delta Farms Inc. to develop a 2-megawatt array of solar generation capacity with battery storage that is expected to bring long-term savings to the gin and farming operation for two decades. Officials gathered to ceremonially “flip the switch” on Friday afternoon. read more >
Entergy Announces $847K in Nonprofit Giving
Entergy Corp. and its charitable foundation announced $847,682 in contributions to 168 Arkansas nonprofit organizations this month, including a $250,000 gift to the Salvation Army. read more >
At Quarterly Meeting, SPP Reports Record Wind Power
As 250 stakeholders and board members gathered in person and remotely this month, the nonprofit Southwest Power Pool in Little Rock reported record wind power totals on its transmission lines and said a 10% pandemic-driven decrease in electricity consumption in its 17-state footprint was apparently temporary. read more >
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