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Associated Bank has announced four new leaders on its Milwaukee team.

“Globalization is here to stay. Many of us who have dealt with offshore partners have lived through many challenging leadership situations and have many stories to share. In one of my consulting engagements a client executive challenged me to explain cultural differences between East and West by simplifying it into one sentence. While it is a daunting task to compress all of the diversity in thinking, actions and approaches of people into one sentence, the first thing that came to mind was how each culture defines individuality. In the West, individuality is literally about an individual, whereas in the East, individuality is identified with a group.

“Grace” is one of my favorite words. On Sundays I watch a little girl named Grace as she walks up the aisle at church, personifying her name. And Grace is the middle name of a beloved granddaughter. Lovely word, I think – and one with many meanings. I tend to like these: inherent excellence; easy elegance of manners, motion or action; perfection of form or the disposition to benefit or serve another.

Yvonne is a worrier, especially now that she is reporting to a new manager.

If you were running a business and over time the U.S. government systematically took your assets, forced you to relocate to a very undesirable location and took away traditional means for your company's survival, could you survive?

In a 1960s anti-war song the lyrics stated, “Where have all the flowers gone?” Today we sing “Where have all the Twinkies gone?”

The Humana Wellness Summit, presented by BizTimes Media on March 28, provided company leaders with health and wellness insights to help lower overall health benefits costs and increase employee productivity.

There was a time when a high school diploma was the ticket to many family-sustaining careers, allowing access to more than 70 percent of all jobs in 1973, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce.

With a potential 700,000 to 1 million Wisconsin residents sitting on partial college credit, the University of Wisconsin System is stepping outside traditional education models to help working adults and older students complete degrees and more importantly develop skills needed by today's workforce.

Five years ago, Catherine Jacobson, Peggy Troy and Susan Edwards all held high-ranking positions in health care systems outside the state of Wisconsin.