Ingrams September 2023
| Perspectives
Editor’s Note
The collective wisdom of this year’s Ingram’s 250 inspires a call to action from Kansas City’s leadership. | 4 |
| Features
Driven to Excel
Honorees from Ingram’s 40 Under Forty program get behind the wheel for a unique Porsche Driving Experience Event. | 7 |
| Perspectives
Between the Lines
Service, as we’ve come to know it, is holding up for now, but the Age of Tech may yet impose unseen costs for all of this convenience. | 9 |
| Perspectives
Reflections
As if business owners didn’t have enough to keep them up at night, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are outstripping legal and legislative guardrails that could limit the actions of bad players. | 11 |
| Perspectives
In a Nutshell
Multiple factors are on the minds of members of the Fed, complicating their task of walking a fine line between an inflationary economy and a high interest business climate. | 12 |
| Features
Q&A with … Mike Heitmann
With retirement on the horizon, the chief executive of Garney Construction wades into the details of crafting a succession plan for an employee owned company with more than $1.5 billion in annual revenues. | 14 |
| Features
Inflection Pointers
Half a century ago, Kansas City rose to a rare challenge to remake some major infrastructure and reposition itself on the national stage. Times have changed, but business leaders in the metropolitan area believe new opportunities are emerging almost everywhere, and must be seized. | 16 |
| Features
The 2023 Ingram’s 250
Retirement continues to levy its toll on business leadership in the Kansas City region, as this year’s updated Ingram’s 250 demonstrates. But make no mistake, the pipeline of power leaders is strong and bears great might. Welcome the eighth class of Ingram’s 250 and the region’s most powerful executives. | 21 |
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