Unless they are in marketing, it’s hard to make optimists of business
executives because they are always looking ’round the bend for the next kink
in their plans. Yet participants in a 2006 roundtable of winners of the
ColoradoBiz Top Company award had little bad to say about business prospects
for the state in 2007.
The roundtable, in fact, was the most upbeat discussion of economic
conditions in Colorado in the four years it has been held in San Francisco
as part of a prize-winning trip for the winners of the magazine’s tough,
annual Top Company competition.
Back in 2003, business executives who took part were mildly confident that
the state was on the mend from the terrorist attacks and the national
recession of 2001.
This year’s roundtable, after two years of strong growth for the winning
companies – much of it on an international stage and including the explosive
growth of shoe-retailer Crocs – produced a lively enthusiasm for the
business climate back home and around the world, an enthusiasm affirmed to
varying degrees by two economists’ views.
