4 Tips for Employee Performance Reviews That Actually Work
Annual reviews can be pointless exercises. Here’s how to give feedback that boosts performance and reduces turnover.
Biz Expert Advice
5 Steps to Handling a Water Damage Claim
Claims are usually covered by your property insurance. Here’s how to start the process – and prepare before accidents happen.
How to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware
The latest ransomware is sophisticated and hard to spot. These five strategies can help ward off cyberattacks.
5 Steps to Doing More with Less
In lean times, simple strategies can help your team get focused and productive.
How to Foster an Ownership Mindset Within Your Team
Companies thrive when they give employees decision-making power and share the profits with them.
Strategic Plans Are Scrutinized for DE&I and ESG Policies. Would Yours Stand Up?
Investors, consumers and employees want to see diversity & inclusion and efforts to stop climate change. A well-designed plan is crucial.
5 Steps to Keeping Your Marketing Local, Even When Headquarters Is Not
Hitting corporate numbers while keeping products and services authentic for Hawai‘i customers can be an art form.
Here Are 5 Ways That Small Businesses Get Sued. Would Your Insurance Plan Protect You?
Without the right coverage, crashes, hacks and honest mistakes can leave you vulnerable.
How and Why This Central Pacific Bank Executive Mentors Others
Kisan Jo, the former president of Prince Resorts Hawaii, mentors to encourage new ideas in his employees and he in turn gains new perspectives.
Here’s How Generational Differences Play a Role in Family Business Succession
A new survey found that the retiring and upcoming leadership differ in terms of perspective, approach and attitude toward the succession process and commitment to that process.
5 Steps to Building DEI
What you can do to build diversity, equity and inclusion into your company’s culture and hiring practices.
How 4 Hawai‘i CEOs Make Decisions
The leaders of Servco, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Hawaiian Electric Industries and Wilson Care Group provide good advice on how to prepare for difficult situations and make good judgments.
Sages Over Seventy
Six kūpuna whose passion, drive and wisdom have made a lasting difference in Hawai‘i for many decades.
5 Steps to Collaborative Leadership
Jean Santos, co-founder and senior consultant of Business Consulting Resources, shares how collaborative leadership development can create stronger teams.
Sages Over Seventy: Lloyd Sueda
He was the inspiration behind Kahauiki Village, an affordable housing community for formerly homeless families
Sages Over Seventy: Eddie Flores
The founder of the L&L family of restaurants still goes to work most days but is now also working on rejuvenating Honolulu’s Chinatown
Sages Over Seventy: Pat Saiki
She exerted enormous influence during decades in public service though she is a proud Republican in a state dominated by Democrats
Sages Over Seventy: Simeon Acoba
Still active today, he was a Hawai‘i Supreme Court associate justice, member of the UH Board of Regents and chair of the Access to Justice Commission
Sages Over Seventy: Puanani Burgess
The tireless advocate for local communities and equal justice continues to work as a mediator with no thoughts of retiring
Sages Over Seventy: Walter Dods
The longtime CEO of First Hawaiian Bank is well-known for a multitude of community-building efforts over 60 years and his public service continues today
5 First Steps to Expanding Your Business
Lisa Miller, an entrepreneurial strategist at Business Consulting Resources, says these five indicators will help you decide.
Environment, Social Justice, Governance and Your Business: What You Need to Know
Hawaiian Electric Industries CEO Connie Lau explains what these topics mean for your business.
IT Strategies that Empower Long-Term Hybrid Work
This Month’s Expert: Doug Shimokawa, Senior VP, Pacxa
A Professional Coach Can Help You and Your Company
You don’t have to be in the C-suite to benefit from coaching—and it might happen at any point in your career.
One-Fourth of Diabetes Patients Lose Limbs. These Doctors Are Trying to Prevent That
In Hawai‘i, diabetes-related complications are worse for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Can limb salvage help reduce amputations?
How Rail Got to $12.45 Billion and 11 Years Late
We sorted through more than a decade of cost overruns, audits and reports to explain how the price soared and why completion fell behind schedule.
All of Hawaii's Eight Gecko Species are Nonnative
Geckos are iconic in Hawaiʻi, as much as pineapples or ukuleles, and, like them, are not native to the Islands. The Polynesians brought them here about 1,500 years ago along with other plants and animals.
