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?
Employee education boosts 401(k) participation at Brady Corp.
Due to changes made in late 2009, Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. was able to make significant gains in the number of employees making full utilization of its 401(k) program and other retirement programs.
Develop the ‘must have’ IT skill sets
Technology, when applied properly, adds value and helps grow your business. But first, any organization needs the IT Big Three – a trio of distinct skill sets that must be in place to get the most out of an Information Technology investment.
Picking up speed
The U.S. auto industry has seen a steady and significant rebound in the past year. J.D. Power and Associates has projected that a total of 12.4 million vehicles were sold in the country last year, up from 11.1 million during 2009.
Revved up
In another sign that the American economy continues to recover from the Great Recession, sales of new vehicles increased throughout 2010, and many analysts expect that recovery will continue into 2011 and beyond.
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Affordable housing subsidies drive apartment development
In the post-Great Recession economic landscape, financing for real estate development is still so limited that almost every developer that is working on an apartment project is seeking a government subsidy that requires at least some of the units to be set aside for residents whose household income is below the county's median income.
Pewaukee firm’s R&D arm produces spinoffs
In 1998, Kurt Brandt founded Brandt Innovative Technologies in Pewaukee with the intention of creating a company that could provide manufacturers with customized solutions for their manufacturing technology needs.
Federal tax relief act creates unexpected benefits
After a year of speculation as to how Congress would address the looming expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, the answer finally came during the last week of the 2010 legislative session. The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Jobs Creation Act of 2010 contains changes impacting both the 2010 tax year (extension of several previously expired provisions) and the next two years (extension of the tax cuts expiring after 2010), as well as several unanticipated items in the estate tax arena.
Bump, set, spike
Justin Schnor, owner of Flipeleven Creative in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood and formerly a professional beach volleyball player for EVP Tour.com, met then 17-year-old Kyle Buckley at Bradford Beach one summer. Buckley was still in high school, but the two became instant "summer friends," Schnor said.
