Personnel File
Accounting
Reilly, Penner and Benton LLP, Elm Grove, has named Dave Bradford its new operations director. Bradford, a former physician assistant, has a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from UW-Milwaukee. His previous positions include serving as COO of a nonprofit as well as functioning as administrator, operations director, COO, and CEO within Milwaukee-area medial groups and health insurance companies.
Advertising & Public Relations
Reach your goals, use these success strategy equations
It’s that time of year when everyone is thinking about their New Year’s resolutions and goals. Why do we often start out with zeal, only to find we aren’t where we hoped to be mid-year? While most of us will blame “not enough time” as the reason, the truth is usually that we have not followed one or more of the following goal setting success strategies below:
Leading with spirituality
"In every moment, something sacred is at stake." - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Cash flow is king, get a handle on your company’s finances
My thanks this month to well known Vistage (TEC) speakers Ron Fleisher and John Zaepfel for their useful insights on the subject of cash flow.
Gift or Graft? China Celebrates the Year of the Dragon
As our holidays subside, China's begins. Jan. 23 will usher in the Year of the Dragon.
Shindig enables fans to book bands for gigs
Shindigs Inc., Innovation: Crowd-sourced event booking platform Milwaukee
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Estate Planning Window of Opportunity
The current estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions are $5 million per taxpayer for the remainder of 2011 and 2012. The top tax rate for estate, gift and GST transfers is a mere 35 percent through 2012. Federal law also includes "portability," which means that a surviving spouse of any individual who dies in 2011 or 2012 may "use up" any amount of the deceased spouse's unused $5 million estate tax exemption by making larger lifetime gifts during this window.
Gone fishin’
Nate Kawlewski, project manager at Elkhorn-based Balestrieri Group, loves to fish and hopes to eventually become a full-time professional bass fisherman.
Nonprofits see glimmers of hope
Most of the nonprofit organizations in southeastern Wisconsin are bouncing back from the Great Recession and believe the worst days are behind them, according to the Public Policy Forum's annual Report Card on Charitable Giving.
“Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy”
In her latest book, author and revenue coach Kristin Zhivago teaches business owners and managers a proven method for increasing their sales revenue. "Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy," can be thought of as a how-to book for revenue growth.
