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Since I do transition coaching, I am privileged to work with people experiencing major turning points in life. A client may be graduating from undergraduate or graduate school and looking for a job, or retiring and planning that major lifestyle change.

We live in a world of rapid change. From the economy to technology, many aspects of our lives have changed and will continue to experience dramatic change.

I've often pointed to the handful of dirty little secrets that exist within most sales teams.

Well, sales leaders have a few secrets of their own.

My thanks this month to Vistage/TEC member Mike Harris of Harris Consulting LLC for some great insights on hiring online marketing managers. He's right on.

In-fighting. Stonewalling. Grandstanding. We are all painfully aware of these problems in our political system. As outsiders looking in, we can see how subversive behaviors like these impede progress and keep the nation's work from getting done.

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Question: I'm the CFO at a small, privately held manufacturing company, founded in the 1960s. The...

Not tying performance reviews to pay raises is a sore spot for me, and has been for many years. I thought that in these times of tough but enlightened management, this dinosaur practice was behind us. I'm sorry to report it isn't.

The Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design announced recently that it will close its facility located at 208 N. Water St., Milwaukee, once the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) constructs its new dormitory in the Historic Third Ward.

Lakeland College, located in Sheboygan County, recently replaced the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as the host of the Milwaukee Center for Economic Education.