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Exceptional Businesswomen honored Newspaper, technical college foundation highlight the efforts of 11 honorees by Tad Johnson DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
The 11 Dakota County 2012 Exceptional Businesswomen were honored on Thursday, Feb. 16, during a recognition breakfast at the Best Western Premier Nicollet Inn in Burnsville. More than 160 of their co-workers, family members and friends attended the event that included an inspiring address by keynote speaker Beth Krehbiel, president of Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. In addition to talking about the hospital’s role in the community along with her personal journey, she encouraged those in attendance with a few leadership metaphors. She said one of the best qualities for a leader is to be more of a pine tree than a shade tree. “Be tall, visionary, straight and strong while not shading out the growth of others,” she said. “Give people around you enough space to grow and develop. Shade trees are beautiful but nothing ever grows underneath them.” She encouraged leadersto be watering cans rather than a measuring sticks. “We all need both,” she said, “but plants (and people) need nourishment before we can measure the progress. Be generous with praise and opportunity.” She also likened the best leaders to conductors rather than instrumentalists. “As a leader your job is to have the talented experts make beautiful music together,” she said. “That requires hearing the whole song and letting people have the right setting to be at their best.” She said one never sees a conductor turn to the audience and sing a solo. “The conductor lets the soloist have the center stage sometimes, and while not letting go of the baton, allows the soloist to set the pace. See Businesswomen, Page 35A
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With several Twin Cities locations, Frattallones return the hardware store to Burnsville on County Road 42. LARRY 2A FRATTALLONE FORUM
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Left: Featured speaker during the 2012 Exceptional Businesswomen event was Beth Krehbiel, president of Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. Right: Burnsville Mayor Elizabeth Kautz explained that women have more advancements to make in the workplace, including attaining comparable wages and greater representation in board rooms of major corporations.
Columnist says that Farmington superintendent advocates that the Legislature should encourage innovation. JOE 4A NATHAN CAPITOL COMMERCE
Sen. Chris Gerlach and other Republican leaders describe an illegal, caucus-night flier as an honest mistake. CHRIS 5A GERLACH CAPITOL COMMERCE
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Exceptional Businesswomen Award winner Theresa Wise, vice president and chief information officer at Delta Air Lines, talks with attendees at the ceremony, which was held Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Best Western Premier Nicollet Inn in Burnsville.
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Thisweek and the Sun Current will become Sun Thisweek March 30 The ECM acquisition will mean a merger of competing Dakota County weeklies
Two free weekly newspapers that have competed with and complemented one another for more than 30 years are merging into a single paper. The first edition of the new Sun Thisweek will be delivered on Friday, March
30, to residents of Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Farmington, Lakeville and Rosemount. The name combines
two familiar and respected names in Twin Cities community journalism: SunCurrent Newspapers and
which publishes Thisweek, of Minnesota Sun Newspapers from American Community Newspapers. “For many years, residents Thisweek Newspapers. and businesses in Dakota The merged news product County have been served by follows the Dec. 30 acquisi- two excellent weekly newstion by ECM Publishers Inc., papers – Thisweek and the
Sun Current,” said Larry Werner, general manager and editor of Thisweek Newspapers and the Dakota County Tribune. “Both papers have covered the interesting and important events and people in our communities and have See Newspapers, Page 35A