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Commercial Design Awards 2013More than 120 people gathered at the Sheraton Madison Hotel on May 7 to celebrate the year's most impressive commercial design projects. This year's Commercial Design Awards winners included The Stream (Project of the Year, Best Medium Project, and Best Green-Built Project) and five other local and state projects. |
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Tim Eiring, CentareIB's Professional of the Week is the premier way to meet the state's professionals. This week features Tim Eiring, vice president of operations, Madison region, Centare. |
“That big cloud has a Frankenstein head with a Betty Boop body,” grandson Patrick mumbles, cloud-gazing. We are driving back to Chicago at the end of a weekend spent in Madison; he is riding shotgun in the front seat, a rite of passage for 12-year-olds nowadays. (How things have changed since I was his age, when my mother would throw her arm across my seat and clothesline my neck when she hit the brakes – with or without a lit cigarette in her hand. Thank heaven for today’s seat belts and airbags.)
A promise you can trust is as good as gold. The highest level of performance is known as the gold standard. If you’re married for 50 years, you celebrate your golden anniversary. Clearly, gold carries connotations of wealth, value, and beauty. But as an investment, is gold always a dazzling success story?
Late last year, our Dale Carnegie corporate office commissioned a study on employee engagement in the workplace. Conducted by MSW research, the study focused on 1,500 employees aged 18 to 61 across all business sectors. Employee engagement is defined as the emotional and intellectual commitment of employees to deliver high performance. What the research found is that there are three primary drivers of employee engagement.
Last weekend I went out for my first bike ride of the year. The first ride is always hard, and I was battling a strong wind that day too. The bad news was I realized my computer battery was dead. But that ended up being the good news, as I didn’t know how slow I was on that first windy ride.
Can an offer letter be an employment contract? How about an employee handbook? Yes, they can be, but it is much better to not have that be the case. As shown by a recent Milwaukee case, without drafting the terms of a formal employment contract, there can be needless confusion and expensive litigation.
Normally, I would have written “wrong” for “evil.” But it is the habit of our acquaintances on the Left to personalize the political. An old Alinsky strategem. Thus, is Scott Walker portrayed with little Hitler mustaches. It is why the self-righteous mobs subject the governor’s family to taunts on his front lawn in a residential neighborhood at midnight. I thought it might be instructive for the other side to try that on for size, for once. See how it fits.
Customers trust that a business will deliver what they’ve asked for, without hassle, at the price agreed to, and within the time frame they require. Businesses trust that their product suppliers will deliver what they’ve asked for, without hassle, at the price agreed to, and within the time frame they require. Trust is based on no surprises!
Digital competitive intelligence is a growing strategic requirement for businesses seeking to monitor the business and marketing activities of competitors. Competitive intelligence should be part of a competitive benchmarking strategy that leads to enhancements of your own product, service, and operational strategies.
In my mind, the ongoing troubles at Scott Walker’s WEDC could only stem from the sensibilities of an anti-government governor who came into office earnestly believing Madison is the problem and then almost immediately set out to prove it. For some reason, I can’t help but picture a cabal of government-scorning zealots, well into their cups, sitting around a table hatching ways to undermine their own agency, erupting in bawdy laughter and micturating their Ayn Rand Underoos at the mention of each new fantastical scheme.
One of my jobs is to analyze performance and solicitations that clients occasionally get from outside money managers, mutual funds, and other “advisors.” I sometimes hear the saying “you can do better” or “you can do better than what you’re currently doing.” It drives me nuts.
Imagine this nightmare scenario: You show up at a meeting where you’re the speaker and you suddenly realize only half the group received the memo about who you are and the purpose of the meeting. The only notice most received was “this is a mandatory meeting,” and it is 6:30 p.m. on a Monday Night Football night, no less. Needless to say, at least 10 of the 20 people are upset. How would you change this anger and frustration (fear) in order to free minds and have a productive meeting?
My wife, Michelle, and I built our house about 12 years ago now. One of the things that appealed to me at the time about building new was not having the unexpected cost of home repairs that older houses can stick you with. (The other thing that appealed to me was that Michelle told me, “We are building new.”) Well, all you homeowners out there know that there is no such thing as a “new” house for long.
As much as I railed against the fiscal cliff deal, one thing I hoped it would accomplish is to peel away a layer of the economic uncertainty that has put economic growth in a straightjacket. By permanently extending most of the existing federal tax rates, a peeling process has hopefully begun.
Walker signs work-share billPosted on Fri, 17 May 2013 at 13:47 pm |
WMC announces Friend of the Environment winnersPosted on Fri, 17 May 2013 at 13:37 pm |
DWD: State created 32,000 jobs in 2012Posted on Thu, 16 May 2013 at 11:29 am |
Postal Service eyes local job cutsPosted on Thu, 16 May 2013 at 10:41 am |
Walker proposes less aid for UW SystemPosted on Thu, 16 May 2013 at 10:39 am |
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Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evil
Blaska may be mistaken, but Soglin is evil
Is Paul Soglin that stupid?