On the Street

Springfield Business Journal has announced the judges’ panel for the 2006 40 Under 40 event. They are, in alphabetical order, 2005 honoree Rhonda Burks of Murney Associates, 2000 honoree Dwayne Fulk of Neale & Newman LLP, 2004 honoree Aaron Jernigan of The Signature Bank, 2001 honoree Kyle McClure of City Utilities, and 2003 honoree Julie Vanvig of Journal Broadcast Group.

The 40 Under 40, now in its sixth year, recognizes outstanding professionals under the age of 40. The 2006 class will be announced in SBJ’s March 27 issue and will be recognized May 18 at Oasis Inn & Convention Center, 2610 N. Glenstone Ave. Tickets for the event are $29 and can be purchased online at sbj.net or by calling (417) 831-3238.

Meanwhile, ticket sales for SBJ’s 2006 Dynamic Dozen end March 3. The 12 fastest-growing companies have been announced and will be ranked at a March 9 ceremony, also at Oasis Inn & Convention Center. The 2006 Book of Lists will be unveiled during the evening event.

Stack in N.Y. Times

Jack Stack, Springfield’s own leader in open-book management, was featured this month in a New York Times article about how his business philosophy has made it into the conference rooms of companies across the country. The Feb. 11 article, “Want to Rally the Troops? Try Candor,” details the beginnings of open-book management and Stack’s role in developing it through his book, “The Great Game of Business,” and as CEO and president of SRC Holdings Corp. in Springfield.

Open-book management “can change people’s lives forever,” Stack says in the article, referring to a system that makes a company’s private financial information available to all employees.

Stack and fellow open-book management leader Bo Burlingham, who contributed to Stack’s book, were responsible for introducing the philosophy in the early 1990s. Stack and Burlingham will be speaking March 15–17 at the National Gathering of Games open-book management conference in St. Louis.

Slice of Nice

Beginning March 1, five area YMCA facilities will be dubbed Colon-Cancer Free Zones in an effort to spread the word about the life-saving benefits of screening and early detection of the disease.

According to a YMCA news release, more than 3,290 Missouri people will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year and more than 1,220 will die of it. However, data from 2002 shows that less than 43 percent of people age 50 and older had been screened in the last five years. The campaign, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society, includes community presentations and placement of colon cancer awareness messages at YMCA facilities and its Web site.