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Plans are probably already underway for your company's holiday party.

Self-esteem has a profound impact on every aspect of our existence including how we interact with people and behave in the workplace, how we interact with those closest to us as well as the degree of personal happiness that we experience in our personal lives.

A few decades ago the nascent computer age produced a few new acronyms for our lexicon. "GIGO" was among the more popular: garbage in, garbage out!

Several of us from the good old USA, Australia and Canada got together the other day to talk about the not-too-distant future, 2010.

The Yunker Industries Inc.'s transformation played a vital role in helping it win a new line of credit with Park Bank, said Heather Baylar, vice president of commercial lending at the bank. "This is a great, family-owned company that now has great visibility," she said. "They did all of the right things necessary to put them on a forward path. This is a relationship with a customer we hope to have for many years."

Kevin Seiberlich is managing director of Menomonee Falls-based Optimus Financial Services LLC, a boutique firm that provides interim management,...

Yunker Industries was founded in Chicago in 1948 by Warren and Mary Helen Yunker, while the young couple lived above a grocery store owned by Warren Yunker's uncle. Warren worked at the store during the day and hand-painted signs for grocery stores at night. Mary Helen delivered the signs, often with a baby in tow, during the day.

Last December, Yunker Industries Inc. was in trouble. The Lake Geneva-based designer and printer of interior retail signs, point-of-purchase displays and related items, had seen orders for its products dry up through the second half of 2008.

When the Blue Harbor Resort and Conference Center opened in 2004, Sheboygan officials hoped it would be the anchor for the redevelopment of a 42-acre lakefront site.

Building construction and architecture have moved away from pencils and paper to computer-generated blueprints and plans.