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Ritz-Carlton Senior Quality Director Speaks at QNM Learning Summit April 16-17

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Janet Souter

QNM News:

ALBUQUERQUE – Janet Souter, Senior Quality Director, The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, is a featured speaker at Quality New Mexico Learning Summit April 16-17 at Isleta Resort.

The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company earned the nation’s highest recognition for organizational excellence, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, in 1991 and 1999.

Souter will discuss the award-winning business practices of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, including how a service excellence culture results in engaged employees and customers. She’ll guide attendees through The Ritz-Carlton Read More

Free Resource Fair Thursday On How To Do Business With LANL And The Government

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RDC News:

ESPANOLA – The Regional Development Corporation (RDC) is hosting the “Resource Roundtable: Opportunities Close to Home,” a free event 1-5 p.m. Thursday, March 13 at Buffalo Thunder Resort.

Three topics will be covered:

  • Finance;
  • Doing Business with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); and
  • Doing Business with the Government.

The event format will facilitate small group discussions between entrepreneurs and knowledgeable resource providers.

Co-sponsoring the event is the Minority Business Development Agency Business Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Members Read More

What is a Life/Leadership Coach Anyway?

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LeAnne Parsons

BUSINESS News:

A coach is action oriented. They come along side someone who is ready to take the next best step to realize a goal, desire, as well as relationship restoration and creation. They aren’t necessarily dealing with someone’s past issues or something that is “wrong.” Rather they focus on what impedes someone’s progress to move forward.

Los Alamos now has its own professional life and leadership coach LeAnne Parsons. Her office is on the second floor of the Community Bank Building at 15th Street and Central Avenue.

Parsons offers individual coaching as well as group workshops Read More

Yang: I’ll Take An ‘Otter Mom’ Over A ‘Tiger Mom’ – Part 2

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I’ll Take An “Otter Mom” Over A “Tiger Mom” – Part 2
By ELENA YANG

Otters are smart and playful. I am sure most people are familiar with the image of a baby sea otter lying on mommy otter’s tummy, bobbing up and down on a bed of kelp. One scene in a nature film showed a group of river otters in the winter landscape at Yellowstone, doing sliding. It was clear that they were playing since they would purposefully climb up a slope just so they could slide down, again and again. 

I never get tired of watching otters, of any type, on film or alive. At a wildlife sanctuary, we learned that a couple of resident otters Read More

Pajarito Brewpub & Grill Named SBDC Success Client

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From left, District Director John Woosley of U.S. Small Business Administration Albuquerque District Office, Director Ted Lopez of Small Business Development Center at Los Alamos, Emily Blumenthal and Brewpub co-owner Patrick Mockler-Wood and their baby Emma, co-owners Dorota Listwan and Pawel Listwan and State Director Russell Wyrick of New Mexico Small Business Development Center Network. Courtesy/SBDC

SBDC News:

The Pajarito Brewpub & Grill has been selected as the New Mexico Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Success Client, and was honored and recognized at this Read More

Council Approves De Colores Liquor License Transfer To Pajarito Brewpub & Grill

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Co-owner Patrick Mockler Wood of the Pajarito Brewpub & Grill answers questions from councilors at tonight’s County Council meeting in Council Chambers on his request to lease a liquor license for his restaurant. He told Council the Brewpub is leasing a license now that will return to the owner and he is requesting to lease the license from former De Colores Restaurant owners, who retired and closed their restaurant last year. License owners Mel and Joan Duran own the license and have agreed to lease it to Mockler Wood and his partners. County Administrator Harry Burgess told Council Read More

DECA Competition Win and New Job Fuel Kaylen Pocaterra’s Interest in Business Career

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Kaylen Pocaterra shows off her DECA Competition medals outside the State Farm office of Abe Dispennette, where she recently began working part time. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

This year, Los Alamos High School Junior Kaylen Pocaterra discovered a new passion when she enrolled in a marketing class and joined DECA. DECA is an organization for high school and college students, that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the Read More

Governor Signs Bill to Eliminate Aircraft Sales Tax, Encourage Growth in NM’s Aviation Industry

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Gov. Susana Martinez

STATE News:

  • Legislation Could Create 125 New Jobs, Make NM More Competitive with Surrounding States

Roswell—Gov. Susana Martinez has signed into law legislation that will eliminate the sales tax on the purchase of aircraft over 10,000 pounds, a move that can spur growth in New Mexico’s aviation industry and create up to 125 good-paying jobs in Roswell alone.

 

Because New Mexico currently taxes the sale of an aircraft, pilots simply fly to places like Texas — where buyers are not penalized — to complete the sale, saving up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read More

Chris Rowberry Joins Los Alamos National Bank as Senior Lender

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Chris Rowberry

LANB News:

Los Alamos National Bank (LANB) announces the hiring of Chris Rowberry as Senior Lender. Rowberry brings with him 20 years of experience in the financial industry in various areas including investments, retirement funds and annuities as well as mortgage and commercial lending.   

“LANB looks forward to having this caliber of expertise on board,” President Steve Wells said.  “As Senior Lending Officer, Rowberry will lead the commercial lending team at LANB. This will include new loan production as well as management of individual lenders Read More

Yang: I’ll Take An ‘Otter Mom’ Over A ‘Tiger Mom’ – Part 1

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I’ll Take An “Otter Mom” Over A “Tiger Mom” – Part 1
By ELENA YANG

The “tiger mom” is stirring up another storm, and this time with a partner. Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, both law professors at Yale, have a new book that just came out in February. The title of the book is: “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.” 

The New York Times published their synopsis on the book, under the title, “What drives success?” Jan.25 (link below); the paper then offered a book review Jan. 31 (link below), and finally a profile of the “tiger Read More