Mike Lawson
Mike Lawson approaches business and pleasure completely differently. In business, he favors a deliberate approach. In leisure time, he just wants to go fast. His divergent views are the product of an ...
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Greg Miller
Greg Miller had only officially taken the reins of his father’s group of companies a few weeks earlier when he and dad had a defining experience. (No, it wasn’t the much-publicized personal time that ...
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Bill Manning
Bill Manning has always been goal-oriented. So it seems appropriate that his career path led him to take the reins of a soccer club.
“If you don’t have goals and you don’t have objectives, you j...
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Lorena Riffo-Jenson
Lorena Riffo-Jenson has an eclectic educational background. As an undergrad at the University of Utah, she studied sociology, criminology and French. Then, after attending law school at Brigham Young ...
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Jason Jones
Jason Jones’ 8-year-old son plays Jr. Jazz basketball on a team coached by John Garff, COO of the Garff auto empire. So when Jones received a phone call from the coach at 9:30 one evening, he thought ...
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Dave Thomas
A senior manager says she'll never leave ThomasArts. The reason? "Entrepreneurial Marxism."
It's a philosophy propagated by Dave Thomas, founder and president of the Farmington-based marketing...
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Larry H. Miller
The man who built Utah’s most far-reaching business empire was embarrassed. It had been 25 years since Larry H. Miller began his entrepreneurial career in 1979 by purchasing a single, horribly over-le...
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Hyrum Smith
Hyrum Smith loves to connect with his audience — his fluid delivery of anecdotes and concepts make people believe in themselves, infused with confidence that they can do things better and turn their i...
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Francisco Ruiz
Francisco “Frank” Ruiz is no stranger to uncertainty. Ruiz, 51, has seen more than his share, from emigrating as a teenager from San Pedro de las Colonias, Mexico, to becoming CEO of International Arm...
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Tim Hutton
Tim Hutton doesn’t enjoy business meetings. He attends, of course, out of respect to his colleagues, but his mode of thinking doesn’t fit well within the conventions of the traditional business world....
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Mike Washburn
Mike Washburn is a hands-off executive running a hands-on operation. And the irony of that dichotomy isn’t lost on the CEO of Thanksgiving Point.
“Thanksgiving Point is very tactile. It’s very tou...
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Jill Taylor
In the early 1990’s, jill taylor made routine deposits and withdrawals for customers as a part-time bank teller and full-time college student. Today, she assists people who manage millions as the Utah...
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