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Financial Services Industry People in the News
Robert W. Baird & Co. has named Steven W. Stroker regional director. Stroker joins Baird from Morgan Stanley Smith...
On the Money
Choppy markets yield rewards by David Massart, president of Wauwatosa-based Next Generation Wealth Management Inc.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Joy Global to acquire LeTourneau Technologies; Marcus Investments to recapitalize Milwaukee Verlo franchise
Douglas Dynamics will hold secondary offering
Milwaukee-based Douglas Dynamics Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer snow plow manufacturer, will launch a secondary offering of five million...
M&A Forum will help business owners prepare for sell opportunities
BizTimes Media will present the M&A Forum, a morning-long seminar exploring strategies to build value, bring a company to...
BizTimes Biz Blog – M&I Bank: The Obituary
Steve Jagler, executive editor of BizTimes Milwaukee, writes in today's Biz Blog:"In the spring of 1847, Samuel Marshall arrived...
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Gazelle company leaders share insights
Four fast-growing mid-size company CEOs shared success drivers at the Biz-Tech Conference & Expo presented by BizTimes last week....
Is Humpty Dumpty being put back together again?
Cell phones are central to our way of life. When leaving the house in the morning, we automatically grab...
Consider redefining your company’s work week
While visiting New Orleans in March to watch the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team play in the Sweet 16, I got involved in a conversation with Katie Leuer, a 25-year old professional who works for Best Buy corporate in Minneapolis. She was in the midst of a four-day trip to cheer on the Badgers. For those of you who follow college basketball, her brother is (soon-to-graduate) Wisconsin Badger forward, Jon Leuer.
Sales hiring
Not long ago in these pages I laid down my own commandments (as I referred to them) of sales leadership. One of them – hire wisely, not well – seemed to touch a particularly sensitive nerve among business owners and senior sales management. Let me take the topic a little deeper.
