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October, OutFront Briefcase

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The Port of Columbia is pursuing plans for what it's calling "the world's first organic...

October, OutFront Boeing Model Grounded

Alaska Airlines has retired the last of its MD-80s, grounding them in favor of Boeing 737s. The...

OutFront, October Freight Rail Grows

Freight rail traffic is growing across Washington state, spurred by growth in Asian imports, high...

October, OutFront Biotechs Feel the Heat

It's not been a good year for many Seattle biotechnology companies. In the last weeks of August,...

October, OutFront Window Shopping

Luxury markdowns around the state

October, OutFront State Gets a 'C' For Friendliness to Manufacturers

There is little doubt that manufacturing is an economic driver in Washington state, employing more...

OutFront, October A Trucker's Guide to the Ports

Do business with the Port of Tacoma or Port of Seattle? Have jitters about your truck drivers...

October, OutFront Taking the Needle to New Heights

The Space Needle isn't just a landmark attraction of the Pacific Northwest. It's also a private...

October, OutFront Recent Company Acquisitions

October, OutFront WaMu's New Direction ... Straight Ahead

Is WaMu in play? CEO Kerry Killinger's forced retirement last month immediately opened speculation...

October, OutFront Executive Appointments

Russ Aldrich is named CEO of QL2, Seattle.Jones Soda Co., Seattle, appoints Michael O'Brien as CFO,...

October, OutFront A Glass Half Full

Washington looks past a gloomy summer to a brighter future

Manufacturing

Bookend, October Bookend

Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fates of Nations

By Richard J. Elkus Jr.

(Basic Books, $27)

Are you sitting down? Because author Richard Elkus, a veteran Silicon Valley exec who introduced the first VCR and has...

Bookend, September Bookend

Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are More Unhappy Than Ever By David Kusnet

(John Wiley & Sons, $25.95)

Get mad, everyone. In the future, that may be the best way to prove that you're a committed...

August, Bookend Bookend

Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are

By Rob Walker (Random House, $25)

We hear a lot about how commercial advertising and slick marketing don't work on consumers anymore. We're too jaded, it's said,...

Bookend, July Bookend

Executive Decision

Megan Murphy

What book should every businessperson be reading right now?

Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer (Houghton Mifflin, $24). "I love this book because it studies the relationship between...

May, Bookend Bookend

Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head -- and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings

By Peter Sheahan

(William Morrow, $25.95)

Peter Sheahan is only 28 years old, so he shouldn't really have enough knowledge to...

April, Bookend Bookend

Executive Decision

LOUIS D. PETERSON

What book should every businessperson be reading right now?

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95). ?A Black Swan is an...

Bookend, March Bookend

What book should every businessperson be reading right now? Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, by Felipe Fernandez- Armesto (Norton, $17.95)...

Bookend, February Bookend

For Your Desk

True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business By Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin

Bookend, January Bookend

George Washington and the Art of Business: The Leadership Principles of America's First Commander-in-Chief...

Bookend, December Bookend

What book should every businessperson be reading right now?

A Whole New Mind: Why Right- Brainers Will Rule the Future, by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books, $15). "According to Daniel Pink, 'the M.F.A. is the new M.B.A.' As the...

Bookend, November Bookend

FOR YOUR DESK

The Leaders We Need - And What Makes Us Follow By Michael Maccoby (Harvard Business School Press, $26.95)

"There is only one irrefutable definition of a leader," writes Maccoby, a psychoanalyst and anthropologist...

Bookend, October Bookend

FOR YOUR DESK

The Toothpick: Technology and Culture By Henry Petroski (Knopf, $27.95) This is at once a volume about cultural evolution and commercial acumen. Petroski (The Pencil) looks back at the prehistoric origins of the...