Greg Johnson, 47, is president of Seattle real estate development firm Wright Runstad & Co. He currently is working on an ambitious urban village project in Bellevue and serving as chairman of the local chapter of the Urban Land...

Geoff P. Wood has been CEO of Windermere Services Co. since 2003. Under Wood's leadership, Windermere has moved into markets in seven Western states, including California. He joined Windermere in 1993, managing five offices in...

Entrepreneurs, not politicians, can unleash the promise of biofuels

Mastering the spoken word is a key skill for leaders

Jennifer Sizemore is vice president and editor-in-chief of Redmondbased MSNBC.com and an executive producer at NBC News. Sizemore, 39, joined MSNBC.com in 2005. Prior to that, she held managerial positions at the Houston...

It's time to rein in e-mail use and reclaim our real lives

Seattle?s class of business visionaries shows its age

Fred Brown is president and CEO of Spokane-based Next IT, which he founded in 2002. Next IT develops artificial intelligence software that humanizes Webuser interactions with virtual characters, such as Alaska Airlines' "Ask...

Janis Machala is founder and managing partner of Paladin Partners, an executive search and business advisory firm that also connects entrepreneurs with investors. She previously was president and CEO of Pinnacle Publishing and...

Where government and business mix, politics isn't far behind

Dan Hill, 49, is PGA Master Professional at Seattle's Broadmoor Golf Club, a position he has held for eight years

Washington can profit from the new sustainable economy

Mary McWilliams, president of Regence BlueShield since 2000, has been founding CEO of two other health plans...

Even in defeat, there are lessons to learn and opportunities to be seized

John V. Rindlaub is CEO of Wells Fargo's Pacific Northwest Region. He joined Wells Fargo in 2002...

In today's wired world, what?s new becomes old at blinding speed

In "Spokane's First Family," William Stimson mentions legal actions surrounding the River Park Square public-private partnership. As coowner and publisher of The Local Planet Weekly newspaper in Spokane during the first half of...

Craig Ueland is CEO of Russell Investment Group, a leader in the highly competitive world of global investing. Ueland, who holds degrees in economics and finance from Stanford University and the University of Washington, joined...

Now that Proposition 1 has failed, where should we go now?

Protect your reputation by planning for the unexpected

WE GOT GAME!

I thought you did a great job on the story about Washington's [video] game industry. The research you did made it stand out over other stories I've read about the region and I appreciated how many people you talked...

COWLES DISPUTES DETAILS

Please let me set the record straight on two serious mischaracterizations in William Stimson's story on Cowles Company ("Spokane's First Family," November 2007).

Mr. Stimson's claim that the City of...

DISCERNING DISCERNMENTS

Thank you for another discernment to rip out and forward to my son who is studying business on the East Coast. Today it was Rich Simmonds' thoughts on generational stewardship ("Family to Family,"...

Scott L. Morris is president and chief operating officer of Avista Corp., a Spokane-based utility. He has spent 25 years with the company, starting out in the utility's marketing division, and was promoted to president of Avista...

A newspaper magnate flies in the face of convention and succeeds

APPROPRIATE TITLE

Karen Hoffman's July 2007 article, "Irrational Numbers" (a number that has no end and no pattern - an apt description of educational reform), did an excellent job of demonstrating that irrational decisions by...

Ken Myer is CEO of the WSA, the state's largest technology trade organization. Myer spent 16 years at IBM before becoming executive vice president of ActiveVoice. In 2002, Myer co-founded the software start-up Interval Systems....

Keeping the corner office in the family presents a unique challenge

WSU's new president sees a larger role for the school in Washington's economic life

There are pros and cons to different ways of paying an executive