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CEOs optimistic about 2014
Sixty-five percent of Wisconsin chief executive officers expect moderate state economic growth in the first half of the year, according to a recent survey by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
Post words. Achieve big. Build success. Day-by-Day.
Last year I posted four words on my bathroom mirror: FINISH, WRITE, SHAPE, and YES.
Young workers avoid miserable jobs: Quality of life more important than work to Millennials
Have you joined the millions of readers of Patrick Lencioni's books? If you have not, this would be a good time to start. They have reached the level of numerous: more than 15, it looks like.
Ask that statement: For real impact, bake your statements into questions
You're in a first meeting with a new potential customer. It's a pickle processing plant. You sell mechanical and environmental systems to a wide range of commercial and industrial companies.
Charting a new direction: Wandell kicks Harley back into gear
Keith Wandell, new to his position as chief executive officer and president of Harley-Davidson Inc. in 2009, faced horrendous business conditions. After 20 years of unbridled success, H-D's business landscape shifted as the recession moved into high gear. Credit became virtually impossible to secure from conventional lenders; bike foreclosures were at an all time high; residual value, a hallmark of the Harley-Davidson brand, plummeted from 85 percent to 60 percent.
A generation of entrepreneurs will forever be on guard
As small business executives continue to remain wary after being blindsided by the unprecedented Great Recession, their reasoning is as justified as it is rational, according to several industry experts.
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“The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time”
The success stories of business giants like Apple, Ford, IBM and Zappos trace their origins back to revolutionary, largely unconventional decisions that reaped as much risk and worry as reward.
71%
The percentage of total educational costs borne by University of Wisconsin System students grew to 71 percent in 2013, up from 38 percent in 2002, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.
Paranet surveying area manufacturers
The Paranet Group, a Milwaukee-based manufacturing development organization, is polling area manufacturers about the past year in its 2013 End of Year Manufacturing Survey.
