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Nov 28, 2023
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023 This marks the 30th year since Ingram’s organized and showcased the merits of extraordinary women in leadership roles. Some may take for granted the recognition-oriented nature of this publication, but one must remember that excellence should be…
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Nov 28, 2023
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023 Twenty years ago this fall, the wildly successful author/producer Michael Crichton spoke at the famed Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. As a topic, he was asked to address the most important challenge facing mankind. The challenge he…
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Nov 1, 2023
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 2023 “For years, the naysayers put up a big fight against a new airport terminal in Kansas City, Missouri,” TPG’s Zach Griff gushes in his guide to the new KCI. “They liked the convenience of the original facility,…
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Nov 1, 2023
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 2023 The date was circled in red on the calendar. The valise was brimming with real-estate comps and downloads of the tax assessments for neighboring properties. I’d rehearsed, at least a dozen times, my best closing arguments, a…
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Nov 1, 2023
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 2023 Each year Ingram’s selects a score of 20 in Their Twenties and features them in our October edition. And each year it feels like the overall quality of candidates may be stronger than the year preceding. This…
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Oct 5, 2023
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 2023 It’s not a popularity contest when our editorial board convenes to deliberate over which executives should be included in the Ingram’s 250 in a given year. The change has been profound among the top leadership, and the…
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Oct 5, 2023
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 2023 With the Age of AI upon us, one can find no shortage of Terminator-inspired memes on social-media platforms these days. Meh: I’m not convinced that machines will be rounding all of us up for slave camps or…
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Oct 5, 2023
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 2023 Having driven across the eastern half of the country four times this summer, I am pleased to report that, despite all the caterwauling to the contrary, the American service economy has never worked better. That said, unless…
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Aug 2, 2023
I served on the board of directors of the Alliance of Area Business Publications for years, and in 1998 it was my pleasure to recruit our keynote speaker for the 1999 Summer Conference in Washington, D.C. I pursued Steve Forbes…
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Aug 2, 2023
Full disclosure: I’m not the kind of passenger whom airlines look to for long-term revenue. Heck, I can’t even remember the last time I flew out of the old Kansas City International Airport’s three-ring configuration—it might have been as far…
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