Biz Notes
Milwaukee
Milwaukee has been designated the top destination for family travel in 2014 by ABC Travel Guides for Kids, according to an announcement made by Visit Milwaukee.
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.
Marquette PR students taught crisis management skills: Employers need to have employees ready for emergencies
When she taught a public relations writing course at Marquette University during the fall semester, Nicole Singer, senior PR counselor at Bottom Line Marketing & Public Relations in Milwaukee, included crisis management in her curriculum because those skills are becoming a more in-demand service for employers.
State program to boost worker training: $15 million in grants available to businesses
The need to improve worker training in Wisconsin is so significant that even Democrats and Republicans are in agreement. It's a rare occurrence lately for the Wisconsin State Senate to pass a bill unanimously with bipartisan support. But the Wisconsin Fast Forward bill became that rare occurrence last March when all 33 Wisconsin senators and 94 of 98 state Assembly representatives voted to approve the workforce initiative.
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Several MMAC initiatives focused on improving education in Milwaukee
As a projected jobs gap of 50,000 looms over Milwaukee throughout the next seven years, stronger ties between business leaders and education administrators have never been more critical.
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.
Forever wary
At a recent meeting of the board of the Council of Small Business Executives, the directors were asked to report something new about their respective companies.
Kohl’s takes scattered real estate approach
Kohl's Corp.'s recently announced decision to drop its plans for a $250 million, 900,000-square-foot second corporate campus that it had planned to build in the Woodland Prime office park in Menomonee Falls means the company's operations will remain scattered in several locations. The company has, or will soon have, operations in at least nine buildings in Menomonee Falls and the far northwest side of Milwaukee.
