Bemus Landscape experiences greater company-wide communication and holistic business understanding after completing an Income|Outcome Andromeda business simulation workshop. Bemus Landscape, Inc. began as one man’s venture in earning cash to pay for college in 1973. From humble beginnings mowing lawns … Read More
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: The Income|Outcome® Business Simulation is nothing like Monopoly® or The Game of Life®. The concept of “serious gaming” is near and dear to our hearts, but we know it may not … Read More
Prices rising and falling as a result of Supply and Demand isn’t a purely theoretical idea, and the people on either side of the deal don’t have to have even heard of it. It happens naturally. If I want some … Read More
At Andromeda we joke about workshops being both “Finance for Non-Finance Managers” and “Non-Finance for Finance Managers”. What do we mean by that? (To coin a phrase.) Nikolai ran a workshop this week for a client – a quick 4-hour … Read More
In the last post Ana Leiderman talked about the reason teams will oversell their capacity, and how that becomes a teachable moment in the classroom. Here are a few more teachable-moment scenarios we noticed this week. The events occur spontaneously … Read More
Two weeks ago Andromeda Training was a corporate attendee in Paris at the annual conference of the Executive MBA Council. I’m illustrating it with the logo from the conference a couple of years ago, because I think that better captures the … Read More
Business acumen is “keenness and speed in understanding and deciding on a business situation.” Companies want to develop these traits, especially in their senior managers – but also in the workforce at large. Most companies would like a corporate culture that nurtures … Read More
Maybe managing a business is like riding a unicycle: no amount of talking about it will build core competencies. If someone wants to get the hang of it, they have to do it. Recently Robin wrote about the importance of … Read More
A report in the June 25, 2009, London-based journal BMC Geriatrics has measured a significant difference in the memory and awareness abilities between US and UK seniors. Functionally, 75-year-old Americans performed at the level of 65-year-old Brits. This discrepancy was … Read More