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Seeing Possibility

Profile on: Penny McCoy, youngest person named to the US National Ski Team, bronze medal winner at the World Championships in Chile Where other people saw only snow, Dave McCoy saw possibility. After the hydrographer’s research showed that Central California’s Mammoth Mountain had more snow than any other in the area, in 1953 he bought the... >Full Story

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Even Success Doesn't Make You Invincible

Profile on: Ed Bjurstrom, Vice President of Engineering for Amgen, the largest biotechnology firm in the world As the vice president of engineering for Amgen, the largest biotechnology firm in the world, Ed Bjurstrom has reached the pinnacle of his career. When he started out at Amgen a mere 15 years ago, the fledgling company was barely getting...... >Read More



Family Unity and Business Success

Profile on: Frank Schrimsher, co-owner Schrimsher Properties For the longest time, the Schrimsher brothers - Steve, Frank, and Mike - owners of Schrimsher Properties, were brothers by blood only. That is, they were siblings, but they weren’t really friends. As such, each was trying to make it on his own; pursuing a separate vocation. But within...... >Read More



A Big Dream Pays Off

Profile on: Gene Birdwell, of Birdwell Construction and Remedial Construction Services Who hasn’t dreamed of leaving the humdrum of their day-to-day job and starting their own business? That’s exactly what Gene Birdwell of Houston, Texas did in 1978. He had been working in the construction industry for 20 years when he finally decided to give...... >Read More



Teamwork Keeps this Firm Alive

Profile of:  Six Manthei Partners, of Manthei Ventures What happens when you have six family members - two sets of three brothers, to be exact - all helping to run the same company? Team concept “We fight regularly,” says Tom Manthei, President of  Manthei Inc., whose leadership team also includes Tom’s brothers Dan and Tim and...... >Read More



Enduring Torture in a POW Camp

Profile on:  Brigadier General (ret.) Robinson Risner, veteran pilot If you fall off a horse, as the old saying goes, the best thing you can do is dust yourself off and get back on before you lose your nerve. Few people realize the truth of this adage better than Brigadier General (ret.) Robinson Risner of Austin, Texas. As a veteran pilot... >Read More



Getting the Job Done

Profile on: Jim Sattler, CEO of EMJ Corporation When Jim Sattler, CEO of EMJ Corporation, gets to work each day, he is usually confronted with one thing: problems. As the leader of one of the largest and most successful general contractors in the USA - which is constructing dozens of shopping centres, office complexes, and warehouses and dealing...... >Read More



One, Two, Three Strikes Against Me

Profile on:  Anthony Munoz, NFL Hall of Fame 1998 Growing up in a poor suburb of Los Angeles, Anthony Munoz dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. Although baseball was his first love, his immense physical stature led him to pursue football instead. Coming from a single parent home in a neighbourhood riddled with gangs, drugs, and violence,...... >Read More


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