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Cargill eliminates 600 jobs in Milwaukee
Cargill on Friday shut down its Milwaukee beef harvest facility, which had 600 employees.
Briggs adds corporate development role
Wauwatosa-based Briggs & Stratton Corp. has hired Shaunna Balady as vice president of corporate development.
Rolfs to become Sensient CFO
Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corp. today announced that Dick Hobbs, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will retire in February 2015. He will be replaced by Stephen Rolfs, who currently serves as senior vice president, administration.
Journal Sentinel faces murky future
There are plenty of underlying factors in the breakup and merger of Journal Communications that won't make its news reports.
Brady names Nauman CEO
Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. today named J. Michael Nauman president, chief executive officer and director, effective immediately.
Milwaukee manufacturing growth bucks national, Midwestern trends
Milwaukee-area manufacturers reported continued strong growth during July, according to the latest report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.
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Employees need a modern workplace: Flexibility helps attract and retain talent
"Corporate cultures are not keeping pace with changing human systems."
— Sir Ken Robinson, author of "Out of Our Minds."
Split them up: Marketing and sales roles should not be combined
Having worked in sales for one of the most powerful marketing companies in the world, the distinction between marketing and sales has always been clear to me.
Sales leadership in the modern age: Be an asset, not an administrator
Eighty percent of sales leaders seem to fall into one of three buckets of ineffectiveness: Hands-off administrators, micro-managing tyrants or good-buddy coworkers. Let's look at what the other 20 percent do.
Keep your life in balance: What entrepreneurs must know
It's ironic that I am writing this on the fast train from Paris to Arcachon, France, for the first two-week vacation I have ever taken in my life.
