Be bold
Many American corporations are compiling record profits and generating record returns for their investors.
Where will NML build?
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. announced recently that it plans to tear down a 16-story office building on its downtown Milwaukee campus. The company plans to replace the building, but has not made specific plans.
More efficient motion
The earliest accounts of the manual wheelchair exist in documents from the sixth century. Surprisingly, the model used back then doesn't look too much different than the one that wheelchair-bound individuals use today. For Jim Maerzke, president of Kenosha-based Procubed LLC, that is a concern and one he hopes to correct with the company's Linear to Rotary Motion (LRM) conversion mechanism.
The changing face of crisis management in China
Recently Johnson Controls Inc. found itself in the midst of a public relations nightmare. A routine pre-kindergarten health check had found elevated levels of lead in the blood of 21 children who were living in a community 700 meters away from its Shanghai battery factory.
MMAC members still projecting some growth
Business growth is projected for Milwaukee area businesses in 2011's fourth quarter, with a majority of those businesses surveyed seeing gains in sales, profit and employment over year-ago levels, according to a business outlook survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).
Bay View Coffee
Alterra Coffee Roasters recently began construction of a 15,000-square-foot café and bakery building at the intersection of Kinnickinnic, Howell and Lincoln avenues in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.
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How much will you need in retirement?
The primary shortcoming to retirement planning is that the investor must make predictions – inflation and the cost of living, health care costs, tax rates, investment portfolio returns, life expectancy, etc. Successful retirement planning is predicated on accurately estimating three components:
Executive Warriors
A group of about a dozen business executives from the Milwaukee area recently competed in the five-kilometer Warrior Dash, which features a dozen "military-style" obstacles, in Twin Lakes.
New civic initiative focuses on education
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation, in partnership by the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Urban League and the United Way of Greater Milwaukee recently formed Milwaukee Succeeds, an organization that will serve as a long-range civic initiative focused on educational success for all children in Milwaukee.
“What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential”
According to Robert Steven Kaplan, Harvard Business School professor and author of the book, "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential," all successful leaders know that leadership is less about having all the answers than it is about asking the right questions.
