Ideas
The perfect cold call
Stop using 'How are you?'
"How are you?" A harmless enough phrase, right? Heck, without it, 80 percent of all phone calls would never get started.
"How are you?" A harmless enough phrase, right? Heck, without it, 80 percent of all phone calls would never get started.
Improve yourself
Business leaders need to invest in their own development
Are you living up to your professional potential? Are you engaged, learning and making a difference? Does your team operate as a collective, or as individual contributors?
Are you living up to your professional potential? Are you engaged, learning and making a difference? Does your team operate as a collective, or as individual contributors?
Business Principles
Here we are in 2011. A fresh start, so to speak.
A better start, perhaps, for many of us than last year at this time. What's changed in the past year?
A better start, perhaps, for many of us than last year at this time. What's changed in the past year?
Velma Coggs was a champion for civil rights in Milwaukee
On Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, my mother, Velma L. Coggs, transitioned to eternal life. My extended family and I...
Cabinet secretaries will ‘do less with less’
In Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's administration, the cabinet secretaries tripped over each other, hoping their departments could be allocated...
Mason Wells acquires Gurnee Mills personal care products firm
Mason Wells, a Milwaukee-based private equity firm, has acquired the equity of Paris Presents Inc., a provider of branded...
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Calendar
The Financial Planning Association of Southern Wisconsin will hold the seminar "How Healthcare Reform Affects You & Your...
Financial Services Industry People in the News
Fiserv Inc. has named Mark Ernst executive vice president and chief operating officer.Ernst will provide leadership in integrated product...
On the Money
When planning a journey, reaching your destination on schedule, and with all of your belongings, depends...
