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Jan 26, 2026
PUBLISHED JANUARY 2026 Today’s disrupter is clearly AI and the other great disrupter of most of our careers has been the internet. I’d add mobile devices into the conversation as co-conspirators of disruption over the past few decades. Consider if…
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Jan 26, 2026
PUBLISHED JANUARY 2026 A new year dawns with fears of the havoc to come from artificial intelligence. Let’s just say that, from what I’ve seen, everyone relying on it should proceed with extreme caution. Not long ago, a local TV…
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Jan 26, 2026
PUBLISHED JANUARY 2026 Some years back, I taught for a year through the Fulbright program at a university in eastern France. The assigned textbook in my urban-studies class featured the four great planned cities of the western world. I assumed…
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Dec 29, 2025
I believe we’re in an era that is considerably more challenging for many non-profits, if not most, to effectively operate. Limited resources must go towards services and core needs, yet communicating the need for assistance is essential to amplify messaging…
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Dec 29, 2025
If you’re still scratching your head about how November’s mayoral election turned out in New York, you can stop. The reasons for electing an avowed socialist to lead the nation’s financial capital should now be clear to anyone not willfully…
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Dec 29, 2025
Driving into my office one December morning and growing weary of Christmas music, I channel surfed my way to an extraordinary conversation. In just 15 minutes, most of them spent in the McDonald’s drive-through line, I found myself reflecting on…
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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 In the late 1990s, I co-hosted a talk show on KMBZ radio. Although our show was not about sports, if we saw Kansas City Star ace sportswriter Jason Whitlock leaving the sports talk show in the adjoining…
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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 If there’s one constant in the business climate, it’s the certainty of change. And as we close out this month, a trio of significant developments from Washington demands the attention of every business leader in the Kansas…
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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 Anyone familiar with our content over the years knows we’re big on milestones here at Ingram’s. There are good reasons for that. In our coverage of business, for example, companies that go from startup to anniversaries of…
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Aug 1, 2025
PUBLISHED JULY 2025 The Corporate Report 100 ranking of the KC area’s fastest-growing companies began in 1986, just a few years after I started working with a great friend, then and now—Mike Rainen at Rainen Business Interiors. RBI had a…
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