Ingram's || April 2013

Features

The Public Record
Within the course of a decade, the list of largest public companies in the greater Kansas City area has undergone fundamental change.

KC's Best Companies
Ingram’s developed the Best Companies to Work For awards to recognize extraordinary businesses. They’re recognized as organizations with the best working environment and most innovative employee benefits.

Leading by Example
Throughout the 15-year history of Ingram’s 40 Under Forty, the program has introduced 600 young accomplished business and community leaders. Here’s a look back at several of them and where they are today.

40 Under Forty Leadership Report

40 Under Forty: The Class of 2013
Like the legions who have gone before them, this year’s 40 Under Forty honorees demonstrate the best in a group of civic-minded, highly accomplished executives.
by Dennis Boone

The Ownership Derby
After years of relative stability, regional hospitals are seeing big moves in ownership changes—with more likely to come. But that isn’t the only megatrend at work in regional or national health care.
by Dennis Boone

COLUmns

BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Sales Moves
You can be aggressive, passive or assertive—but only one will get you the sale AND the repeat customer.
by Jeffrey Gitomer

Financial Adviser
If you’re making of a commercial realty move this year, here are a few things you want to ponder about the KC area market.
by Ryan Schneider

Small Business Adviser
Business owners should pause to consider the ever-lengthening lists of ways that federal health-care reforms will affect them.
by Jeff Spencer

Wealth Management
Interest rates eventually will rise, setting off a multitude of changes that investors should be prepared to consider.
by Tom Freeman

General Editorial

PERSPECTIVES

Editor's Note
Thoughts About Leadership
by Joe Sweeney

Between the Lines
The reliance on debt in Kansas City and in Washington augurs for a return to the days when we had a sense of shame.
by Jack Cashill