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Greenville Investment and Growth Continuing in Face of Global Concerns

Apr 11, 2022 05:04PM ● By L. C. Leach III

Never mind current inflation, worker shortages, high construction costs, supply chain troubles, the crisis in Ukraine and Russia, or ongoing concerns with coronavirus. While all of these issues are usually economic deterrents, the Greenville-Spartanburg area and other parts of the Upstate continue to show more and more signs of economic vibrancy, a healthy job market, and new commercial investment in an ongoing, growing area.

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Commercial Real Estate Market Showing Growth Across South Carolina

Apr 11, 2022 04:48PM ● By C. Grant Jackson

As the U.S. economy emerges from the shadow of the pandemic of the last two years, South Carolina’s commercial real estate market remains strong and poised for continued growth across all sectors, but especially in the industrial segment.

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In Uncertain Times, Mentoring Is the Silver Bullet Solution Leaders Need

Apr 11, 2022 04:07PM ● By Bert Thornton

Organizations in all industries have been hit hard over the last two years. The pandemic and its ripple effects have left leaders desperately wondering, What’s going to happen next? And how do I manage it? Unless you have a crystal ball, there’s no way to accurately answer the first question, but I have a suggestion to help you tackle the second: mentoring.

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Inclusive Decision Making: Four Questions to Ask Yourself When Making Decisions

Apr 11, 2022 03:41PM ● By Beth Ruffin

Business leaders who understand the need for diversity, equity, and inclusion often find themselves grappling with how to operationalize and formalize the work. A good place to start is to ensure that you’re making inclusive decisions – those that serve all.

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Create a Technical Maintenance Support Team That Helps Decrease Downtime

Apr 11, 2022 03:03PM ● By Rodney A. Jones

It is a new year with companies creating new goals. The goals may be different, but they all consist of the same concepts. To run with little to no downtime and develop suitable products, I have recently started a new industry training program here at Clemson University. This program is designed to help companies get their maintenance support trained to help eliminate some of this downtime. Identifying and correcting issues before they happen is a skill maintenance support need.

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Manufacturing in 2030: Why Advancing Beyond Disruption Requires a More Innovative Approach

Apr 11, 2022 02:52PM ● By Jessica Donan

South Carolina is a phenomenal place to do business and home to companies that are driving innovation in the aerospace, agribusiness, automotive, and technology industries. One of the state’s most valuable features for businesses is the Port of Charleston, which has the deepest water in the Southeast and regularly handles ships too big to travel through the Panama Canal.

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Business Leaders Share Challenges, Triumphs After Two Years of Covid-19 Turmoil

Apr 11, 2022 01:23PM ● By David Dykes

Just about everyone can talk about how Covid-19 and the aftermath have affected them personally, or professionally. Business and restaurant owners know. Hotel operators and teachers know. Health care workers know. Parents know.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Executives Talk About What it Means and Why it’s Important

Jan 28, 2022 04:36PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Q. What has influenced your thinking about DEI and motivated you to get involved in being an advocate for change?

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Key Business Strategy in an Ever-Evolving Business World

Jan 28, 2022 03:47PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Lee Gill fondly remembers his college days at University of Michigan, where he and his friends would fiercely debate the issues of the day. Gill, who hailed from South Bend, Ind., was thrilled to hear unfamiliar perspectives from people of different backgrounds and cultures. He enjoyed having his views challenged and looking at the world from a different vantage point than the one he’d grown up with in Indiana.

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Ten at the Top Roundtable

Jan 28, 2022 03:26PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Q. Where new development goes is often at the discretion of the land owners (with some input from local governments). What can be done to ensure that we do not have sprawling growth, but instead build new residential and commercial developments in appropriate locations that will not tax our physical infrastructure?

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BMW of North America Reports Q4 2021, Full Year 2021 U.S. Sales Results

Jan 28, 2022 10:45AM ● By David Dykes

BMW of North America reported Q4 2021 and full year 2021 sales results for the BMW and MINI brands in the U.S., with BMW brand sales increasing 20.8 percent for the year.

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South Carolina’s Rates of Infant Mortality, Preterm Birth Earn State an F Rating from March of Dimes

Jan 27, 2022 05:28PM ● By Liv Osby

Julia Clardy was sharing a spaghetti dinner with her husband Jason one evening in late April 2019 when she began to feel some pain. At 23 weeks pregnant, she was just over half way to her due date. But the signs were unmistakable. She was in labor.

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Inclusion Uncomplicated: Four Strategies to Make DEI Practical

Jan 27, 2022 04:46PM ● By Dr. Nika White

Every day, we hear that the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is complicated. Whether from businesses, employees, society in general, or the practitioners themselves. And the truth is — yes — DEI can be complicated because the issues of DEI are complex.

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Federal Marketplace Offers Help as Health Insurance Costs Rise

Jan 27, 2022 04:15PM ● By Frank Knapp Jr.

Small business owners and workers across South Carolina have found good news on affordable health insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace, where plans from private insurance companies could be obtained with premiums based primarily on income but not on one’s health status.

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South Carolina Needs More ‘Civic Leadership’

Jan 27, 2022 03:13PM ● By Jason Zacher

Our short-term, social media and meme-based political dialogue is destroying a generation of leaders and is dragging down our communities.

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Complete Client Transparency and Why It Matters To You

Jan 27, 2022 01:28PM ● By Joan Herlong

In my almost 30 years of listing and selling in the Upstate, I have never seen a housing market quite like this one, and there are no real signs of it changing in the coming 12 months.

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SC Department of Education Partners With Mental Health America to Help Kids Struggling with Pandemic Challenges

Jan 27, 2022 01:03PM ● By David Dykes

Covid-19 has been a terrible strain for many families, including children, parents, health care workers, educators, students, child care workers, and so many others.

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How Foundations Can Help Shape A More Equitable Future

Dec 23, 2021 03:23PM ● By Minor M. Shaw

Throughout history, private foundations have played an integral role in helping shape philanthropic investments and in leading change, both social change and otherwise. Private foundations are generally funded by individual families or corporations. They differ in their focus, but most are created to serve the common good through grantmaking. Foundations are catalysts for philanthropic investments at the local, state, national, and international levels.

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Wyche Firm at 100: History of Legal, Community Leadership

Dec 23, 2021 02:55PM ● By Kevin Dietrich

Wyche P.A. celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, but the well-known Greenville law firm looks nothing like the entity that began operations just after World War I. Some of the practice areas the firm is known for today, such as venture capital, renewable energy development, and disability rights, were unknown in 1921. Others, such as antitrust and trade regulation, product liability, and securities and corporate finance, were far less complex.

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Support Group Helps Patients With Lingering Effects of ‘Long Covid’

Dec 23, 2021 02:51PM ● By Liv Osby

Fred Wood tested positive for Covid a year ago and suffered extreme fatigue at the time. The worst was to come a few months later. Suddenly, he began to notice intense muscle weakness. Then came severe shortness of breath.

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