ColoradoBiz articles from November 2007

ColoradoBiz archives from November 2007

From a rocky past to the World Series.(COTE'S COLORADO)
November 1, 2007... The night before the Rockies clinched a spot in the World Series, a bar patron looked up at a TV screen and pondered aloud what had been on the minds of newly minted baseball fans across Colorado for more than a month. [ILLUSTRATION...

Is it better to be a good leader or a good manager? To excel you have to be both.(ON MANAGEMENT)
November 1, 2007... Frank has his organization on a tight leash. Everyone knows their job because it has been well described for them, when they are to do it and how they are to do it. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The year is laid out on paper, the budgeting...

Women who want to serve on boards need competence--and connections.(GUEST COLUMN)(Viewpoint essay)
November 1, 2007... Being elected to a corporate board of directors is simple: You need to know the right people. It's all about the Old Boys' Network and, to some extent in recent years, the Old Girls' Network. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Certainly, a woman...

Spending within your means.(READERS RESPOND)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I read your column in the October issue of ColoradoBiz magazine ("Death pledge," Jeff Rundles) and very much agree with your points. I recently saw that when the Fed began lowering the Fed funds rate to I percent, everyone began rushing in...

Xeriscaping bans are hypocritical.(READERS RESPOND)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Water has always been the lifeblood of our state. However, I can see a huge problem with a rather simple solution from the photograph of the green lawns on the first page of the article ("Glass Half-Full," October). How about more...

Climate change could spell trouble for 'reusable' water.(READERS RESPOND)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... Enjoyed your magazine's piece on water. Please note that with already-evident climate change, "reusable" supply may become quite problematic, moreover, trading food production for Kentucky blue might be very foolish. At the least, it...

Executive edge: Ken Deal; U.S. marshal's career spans from Noriega to McVeigh.(attitude at altitude)(Occupation overview)
November 1, 2007... A framed Norman Rockwell print in Ken Deal's downtown office in the Federal Building serves to remind him why he comes to work every day. It depicts a U.S. marshal escorting an African-American girl to school during the fractious era of...

On board for action: leaders make a difference by serving on nonprofits.(attitude at altitude)(Occupation overview)
November 1, 2007... Karen Bernardi's Boulder-based real estate group is Coldwell Banker's top-producing team in the Rocky Mountain region. But she remembers the days when, as a poor, single mother, she collected a food box from Community Food Share in Boulder. ...

Best in the business: winners follow paths of passion, determination to Top Company summit.(Company rankings)
November 1, 2007... For entrants and judges alike, the ColoradoBiz Top Company competition is a rigorous journey. Entrants undergo an examination of their financial performance by sponsor Deloitte, and seven judges made up of business and community leaders assess...

Shades of green: LEED certification may be flawed, but even critics concede it's not wasted energy.(PLANET-PROFIT REPORT)(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
November 1, 2007... If you could take all the press releases written about LEED green building certification and recycle them, you would end up with an ecologically correct pile of paper that would reach from Denver to the moon. If you could capture all the...

A moveable feast of 'green' vehicles: sooner than later, we will all be motoring green.(PLANET-PROFIT REPORT)
November 1, 2007... It's been more than 30 years now since the Arab oil embargo sent the first shock waves throughout the United States that heightened awareness to our dependence on foreign oil. Back then, in the early 1970s, people who had scoffed at small...

Bedrocks of business; From accounting to VCs: ranking Colorado's professional-service providers.(TOP PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2007)(Statistical table)(Company rankings)
November 1, 2007... Professional services are a loosely defined group that, as the wording suggests, are in the business of serving other businesses. Traditionally this group has included the fields of law, accounting, architecture, engineering, general...

Chipotle CEO puts a wrap on fast-casual.(ON SMALL BIZ)(Company overview)
November 1, 2007... Steve Ells sounds more like a chef than a businessman as he explains what drives the masses to Chipotle Mexican Grill. He's less apt to talk about profit margins or economies of scale than he is about food with "depth and character and nuance...

Holiday gift stuff from Colorado.(SMALL BIZ)(Hommage)(St. Julien Hotel & Spa)(Avalon Acoustics Inc.)
November 1, 2007... HOMMAGE SHAVING PRODUCTS Founded with offices in Denver and Paris in 2004, Hommage is the first company to focus on luxury shaving products. "There was a hole in the market," said CEO Tom Wilscam. "No one was going after the luxury niche."...

Scrumming for infamy in Glendale.(SPORTS BIZ)
November 1, 2007... Mike Dunafon has lived life every bit as large as his barrel-thick chest suggests: He's an avowed libertarian who grew up working ranches, tried out for the Broncos in 1976 and 1977 after lettering four years at Northern Colorado, chilled out...

Clinging to a recession's silver lining.(RUNDLES WRAP-UP)(Personal account)
November 1, 2007... At first I didn't think anything of it. Two years ago, my parents bought me a one-year subscription to a golf magazine. No amount of reading about golf is ever going to help my game, so I decided I would not renew. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...