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Steve Biondi, R.N. Vice President of clinical services Extendicare Health Services, Inc. 111 W. Michigan St., Milwaukee,...

Creative Business Interiors Creative Business Interiors, Milwaukee, provided business furnishings for several award winning projects at...

If you consider yourself an entrepreneur, you probably consider yourself highly productive as well.

I am privileged to work with people who are categorized as the best of the best, the top 5 percent of all performers. Most people think that a top performer is lucky because he or she was born with an exceptionally high I.Q. or special talent, but high performers achieve results that others do not because they develop and maintain success habits.

Ever have a sales situation where you've come to realize, usually quite late in the game, that you're going to lose? And to make matters worse, it appears the customer is about to buy from someone he or she will later regret buying from? Frustrating, isn't it?

Not tying performance reviews to pay raises is a sore spot for me, and has been for many years. I thought that in these times of tough but enlightened management, this dinosaur practice was behind us. I'm sorry to report it isn't.

Loans made to Milwaukee-area businesses through the U.S. Small Business Administration have significantly increased since the Great Recession....

If you have a product or service and you want to get into the China market, one of your biggest challenges will be distribution. Even though the media plays up the problems with intellectual property, fakes and copycats, the truth is China's markets are immature.

Stephen Marcus, chairman of The Marcus Corp., will be the recipient of the 2010 BizTimes Bravo! Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award.

A $35 million office building proposal at Wisconsin Avenue and Broadway in downtown Milwaukee is opposed by a downtown alderman, and the project could get caught in a historic preservation battle.