INGRAM'S • June 2011 • Volume 37, No. 6
Black Book Profile
David Starling is keeping things
on track at Kansas City Southern.
Joplin’s Will to Rebuild
A determined business community projects the mindset of a city crippled by the May 22 tornado: Joplin, they say, will be back.
War on Small Business?
It may just be their defining me-against-the world mentality, but small business owners say government is building new barriers to their success. Some, though, still find ways to succeed.
20 in Their Twenties
Meet a score of up-and-coming twenty-somethings who are flexing their entrepreneurial muscle and making their mark on the Kansas City business scene.
Health-Scare Reform
A year after Congress approved an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system, as many questions remain as ever.
Healthcare Reform Industry Outlook Report
Area insurance executives take the
measure of changes in the national
and regional marketplaces.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
Sales Moves
What are you doing to grease the skids
for the next sale after the latest one?
Wealth Management
Have you taken the necessary steps
to deal with issues of incapacity?
Small Business Adviser
Joplin was an extreme case, but threats
to business supply chains are everywhere.
Financial Adviser
Health-care costs remain a major challenge to U.S. business competitiveness.
Of Counsel
Business owners and decision-makers need to be on guard with health reform.
PERSPECTIVES
Editor's Note
Joplin: Indescribable Destruction Indomitable Spirit
Between the Lines
There’s something wrong with embracing a 19th-century fire-fighting model.
