You might want to reframe your thinking about the first level of interaction at your company. It’s your first-line supervisors who are directly responsible for the happiness of your customers and your bottom line....
The National Security Agency is the nation’s digital spying organization. U.S. Cyber Command is a military unit focused on cyberwarfare. Does it make sense for one person to lead them both at the same time? That has been the case since Cyber Command’s inception in 2009....
Launching and growing a business is 90% about the idea, the initiative of the founders and the team they build to bring that product or service to market. It’s also 10% intangibles that include a support system, formal or otherwise, which lays a foundation for entrepreneurs...
Are you continuously improving or sliding backward? What makes one organization successful in driving high performance while another stutters and stalls? At our Chicago-based Executive Coaching firm rd&partners, we answer these questions with two words, “Performance Chemistry.” We base this answer on experience working with many companies...
In a room that was once little more than a storage area for largely unused equipment, the Waunakee School District is outfitting a space where students can explore their futures. Dedicated this month at a breakfast that highlighted investments of time and money by community business...
The longest-running investor pitch event in Wisconsin is the annual Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. By one name or another since the 1980s, this conference has been giving entrepreneurs and young companies a chance to tell their stories to investors. It has helped fuel some remarkable...
A creative provision in the Assembly Republican “Forward” agenda released in early September is the pledge to provide every high school freshman with a computer or tablet to connect them with the internet....
Jim Schmidt, the energetic chancellor of UW-Eau Claire, breaks it down to dollars and cents when he explains why students shouldn’t dally in their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree from his campus in northwest Wisconsin. “It costs $50,000 to stay a fifth year,” Schmidt often tells...
P&G leader Arthur Jones once said, “All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get!” This truism should be tattooed on every leader’s chest so that one glimpse in the morning mirror reminds them of the CEO’s responsibility. If they don’t like their organizational...
After the recent sale of Yahoo! to Verizon, Marissa Mayer’s CV became a topic of discussion when the web platform, Enhancv created a sample CV highlighting her experience, skills, and career. How can you make your CV more compelling? Here are the key takeaways and...