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Movers, shakers and moving. Western Montana InBusiness from the Missoulian

From the very first issue of Western Montana InBusiness, we’ve been fascinated by the notion of business leadership.

In western Montana, that leadership comes in a variety of forms:

• The entrepreneur who gambles big to start a business.

• The nonprofit executive who works endlessly to put the organization on a stable financial footing.

• The government leader who makes a point of reaching out to business.

• The educational leader who works to build bridges between the worlds of academia and business.

The list could go on and on, but you get the point: Western Montana’s evolving economy offers participants a variety of ways to become successful.
This issue of InBusiness is our annual "Movers and Shakers" issue, in which we offer profiles of business leaders in Missoula and western Montana. The breadth and scope of the people profiled and the positions they hold in western Montana help underline the point about business leadership these days coming in many different ways. My hope is that you find these stories interesting and even inspirational.

The very first issue of InBusiness, back in the fall of 2002, also was a "Movers and Shakers" issue; Angela Kenyon, the owner of Miss Zula’s boutique, was featured on the cover. It somehow seems fitting that my tenure as the editor of InBusiness wraps up with another "Movers and Shakers" issue: By the time this issue hits the stands, I’ll be headed to Oregon, where I’ll serve as the publisher of the Corvallis Gazette-Times newspaper. It’s a promotion that will give me a chance to explore different aspects of the newspaper business, and to get involved in a community in a different way than I’ve been able to do as the editor of InBusiness and the Missoulian. I’m looking forward to the challenge.

But, of course, I will miss Missoula and western Montana. And one of the things I’ll miss most will be working on this monthly business publication. It has been gratifying to talk to businesspeople throughout western Montana, to learn about their businesses and to try to produce a publication that tracks the sea changes occurring in our economy – and the personalities who are helping to trigger those changes.

I’d be remiss if I missed one final chance to thank the InBusiness advisory board. When we launched this publication, we drew up a "dream list" of people we really wanted to join that board, to help us shape the publication and to be sure we stayed on top of the trends rolling through our economy. To our delight, every one of the people on that list joined us – and we’ve since added some other key players as well. Best of all, our advisory panel continually has urged us to think big, to tackle the biggest, most complex and – yes – the most controversial stories. We haven’t always hit the mark, but that’s through no fault of our advisory panel – although it is fair to say that much of whatever success we’ve had with InBusiness is thanks to our advisory group.

Members of the panel include Rich Boberg, of the Missoula Macy’s; Bob Boschee, of Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.; Rosalie Sheehy Cates, of the Montana Community Development Corp.; Missoula County Commissioner Barbara Evans; Larry Gianchetta, dean of the University of Montana School of Business; Faye Hanson-Warren, of U.S. Bank; Vicki Judd, of NorthWestern Energy; Dick King, of the Missoula Area Economic Development Corp.; Denise Lamb, of Collegiate Marketing; Kim Latrielle, of the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce; Loren Rose, of Pyramid Mountain Lumber; and Joni Walker, of Missoula Federal Credit Union.

We will continue to produce InBusiness at the Missoulian; Sherry Devlin, the paper’s city editor, will step into my InBusiness role for the time being, and our chief InBusiness writer, Tyler Christensen, will take a larger role in planning and coordinating the magazine. Plans are already under way for the January edition, which will be our annual Outlook issue.

Thanks for reading Western Montana InBusiness Monthly. Here’s hoping that, whatever your business ventures may be, they all prosper.

By MIKE McINALLY

For the full edition: http://www.mtinbusiness.com/inbiz-0512/

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