A week from today, the election will be over.The ballots will have been cast. The campaign advertisements will stop. The yard signs will begin disappearing, and the conversations that have dominated so much of our attention will gradually give way to other concerns.Some candidates will celebrate. Others will be disappointed. Some voters will be pleased …
There is a phrase we hear a lot in business: Find a need and fill it.It sounds simple.Of course, anyone who has ever owned a business knows there is absolutely nothing simple about actually doing it.As I read through the stories in this month’s issue of Kitsap Business, something kept jumping out at me. Again …
There is always a reason to wait.Wait for interest rates to come down. Wait for inflation to settle. Wait until hiring gets easier. Wait until consumers feel more confident. Wait until the election is over, the housing market improves or we have a little more certainty about what comes next.Business owners have become pretty good …
Every community tells a story.You can see parts of it in the obvious places. In the schools and neighborhoods. Along the waterfront. In the ferries moving back and forth across Puget Sound. In the shipyard, the military installations and the communities that have grown around them.But you can also see it in the businesses we …
Every election is ultimately a choice about the future we want to build.Sometimes those choices are defined by party labels. Sometimes they're driven by ideology. But occasionally, the decision becomes something far more fundamental.It becomes a question of leadership.For me, this year's race for Washington State's 23rd Legislative District, Position 1, is one of those …
Business is changing quickly. Artificial intelligence is reshaping workflows. Algorithms determine what people see online. Marketing strategies are increasingly driven by data, automation and optimization. Companies can target audiences with extraordinary precision. Content can be generated in seconds. Customer behavior can be tracked in real time. All of that matters. But amid all the technological …
Kindness is often treated as something optional.A personal trait. A nice gesture. A matter of personality.It is easy to see it as secondary to more serious qualities like strength, intelligence or determination. In public life especially, kindness can be dismissed as softness, something that belongs on the margins rather than at the center.That view misses …
There was a time when if you had strong opinions about your community, you were expected to show up.
There was a time when the phrase felt simple and dependable: What you see, you believe. It reflected an unspoken agreement about how things worked.
Welcome to the December edition of Kitsap Business. This month, we close out the year with a set of stories that highlight something essential about our region: the future of Kitsap’s economy is being built—not by abstract forces or distant markets—but by the people who choose to invest their time, talent, and conviction right here …
