Teamwork--It's a Thing.

• Author: Mackenzie, Kathryn

I've been an editor for more than twenty years. I've edited just about everything one can imagine (seriously) and never have I been as excited about a magazine issue as I am about this issue of Alaska Business. It's not just because it contains our annual Top 49ers special section or because, as a group, the Top 49ers reported more than $17 billion in 2018 revenue (which is the highest group total in Top 49ers history), or even that I'm in love with this year's theme: Meanwhile in Corporateville...

It's the amount of teamwork that went into this issue that has me saying, "Zoinks!"

Every person at Alaska Business contributed to this issue in one way or another. Each year the entire team comes up with some good, some terrible, some hilarious ideas for our Top 49ers theme; after we rip them apart and poke fun at each other, we eventually get serious and vote on our favorite. This year we chose to lighten the economic mood by celebrating the companies on the list with a pop-art, comic-book-style theme. In an impressive (some may say heroic) showing, our brand new Art Director Majestic Monica took the idea, worked fearlessly into the night, and brought the team's idea to life.

Meanwhile, in the rest of Alaska Business-ville. Ever-Excellent Emily spent months surveying and collecting data for this year's rankings, which in and of itself is a task that makes my editor-senses tingle, but that isn't all. She also examined every single October issue of Alaska Business to create a trove of historical data that includes all the...