How Unity Forest Products CEO Enita Elphick Clawed Her Way to the Top
John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, once defined leadership as the ability to inspire others to “dream more, learn more, do more and become more.” That definition undoubtedly applies to Unity Forest Products Owner and CEO Enita Elphick, who [click on title to continue reading...]
McClatchy Moves Up the Paper Chain
Any number of things make a business transaction a “big deal.” For one, size does matter, as does a touch of controversy and the potential to dramatically alter an industry. In 2006, the Sacramento region’s biggest deal - the McClatchy Co.’s $6.5 billion March purchase of the Knight Ridder [click on title to continue reading...]
Curt Johansen’s Trading Steep Profits for Sustainability. Will the Building Industry Follow Suit?
Curt Johansen is a man on a mission. The executive vice president of Triad Communities LP in Vallejo has been to the top of the development world, and to put it bluntly, he doesn’t much like the view. But Johansen [click on title to continue reading...]
In 2006, Comstock’s asked me to take a comprehensive look at the issue of flood control in the Sacramento Region. The editors wanted to know what kind of economic damage a major flood might cause, what state and local governments were doing to prevent it and, most important, what we should be doing ourselves to [click on title to continue reading...]
Oakland Athletics Vice President & General Manager Billy Beane
Baseball is many things to many people – sport, pastime, and sometimes a way of life. It is certainly all of those things to Oakland Athletics Vice President and General Manager Billy Beane, the man behind the team’s remarkable on-field success over much of the last decade. [click on title to continue reading...]