
A Dancer’s Destiny
In the studio with Sacramento Ballet prinicpal Melanie Haller
As a student, Melanie Haller trained for 12 years at the internationally-recognized Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under world-renowned ballet teacher Marcia Dale Weary. Now, as principal of the School of the Sacramento Ballet, Haller trains the Pre-Professional Division — the school’s three highest levels (ages 10 to 18-and-up).

How to Make Flexible Work Schedules a Reality
Surveys have found that more than half of employers offer some sort of flexible work arrangement, from telecommuting to flex time. But many of the employees that take advantage of that flexibility say they’re made to feel like slackers. An Ernst & Young survey concluded that one in 10 workers in the U.S. have “suffered a negative consequence as a result of having a flexible work schedule.”

Can Virtual Reality Be the Next Thing in Curing Blindness?
What affects 20 million people, robs the global economy of billions of dollars and can be fixed with a five-minute procedure?

Rise of the Robots Will Eliminate More Than 5 Million Jobs
Over five million jobs will be lost by 2020 as a result of developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics and other technological change, according to World Economic Forum research.

Your Brand Needs a User Manual
Here’s a list of chapters to include
If brand is more than a logo, why are most brand books little more than a style guide? A style guide isn’t going to empower your employees to deliver on your brand’s promise, guard your brand’s differentiators, or make everyday decisions in line with your brand strategy.

Pot’s Barrier to Legit Banking
Legal weed outlets, flush in cash, struggle to find financial institutions
There is an old jest that says the fastest way for a business to run off its customers is to adhere to the motto, “In God we trust; all others must pay cash.” But for Kimberly Cargile, director of the East Sacramento medical marijuana dispensary, A Therapeutic Alternative, cash and carry is her only option. And it really is no laughing matter.

When I Was Your Age…
Navigating the generation gap, again
People will inevitably adapt to the demands that new technologies bring. They say that children born today will never have to learn to drive a car. Instead, they will learn to do things no adult generation today can yet imagine. It has always been this way, since the first caveman discovered fire and invented tools. Each preceding generation has something to do with the inventions that are passed on to the next. So why all the intergenerational demonization?

#MyArtofBeer VIP Contest
Calling all Sacramento beer lovers! With so many wonderful, local craft options in the Capital Region, we want to know how you like to sip! Here is your chance to nab VIP tickets (a $160 dollar value) to the upcoming Art of Beer event.

When the 10-Year Work Anniversary Is a Personal Failure
Job-hopping millennials are getting older. Unlike previous generations of young people who eventually settled into a company for long-term financial security, the generation born between 1982 and 2004 isn’t taking the bait, a new survey shows.

Book Review: A Challenge to Prevailing Nonprofit Paradigms
‘Good to Great and the Social Sector’ sees nonprofit management through the eyes of business
The mantra “doing well by doing good” has long been a rallying call for nonprofit endeavors. It also reflects the dominant theme of the book Good to Great and the Social Sector: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great.