Commentary

What does a nearly 100-year-old greeting card company have to teach the market about mobile content? A lot, it would seem from my recent conversation with Bryan Biniak, general manager of American Greetings' recently formed AGmobile group. ...

Gov. Jim Doyle’s recent trade mission made clear that China represents phenomenal opportunities for Wisconsin companies. But we also learned that Wisconsin companies doing business in China and other parts of the world must take important steps to protect their intellectual property and technology....

Two new comprehensive studies of trends shaping the future workforce have recently been issued by the Hudson Institute and The Rand Corporation – both respected think tanks on economic, political and social issues. Both reports strongly suggest that the challenges of managing talent are about...

There’s only one enemy hovering silently in your life. What’s that, you ask? Time! Watch people. They’re totally overwhelmed trying to control their work and personal schedules. Trapped in the domination of Enemy Number One, you can see them sulking and hear them huffing: "I’m...

As a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, my top priority has been growing the state's lagging economy. As co-chair of the Senate Select Committee on Job Creation, many pro-job initiatives authored and vetted by our committee have passed the legislature on a bi-partisan...

This weekend I attended a talk at my local elementary school given by Peter Senge, author of “The Fifth Discipline” and a prominent proponent of systems thinking. Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, body of knowledge and tool set developed over the past fifty years,...