Picture this: navigating the multifaceted world of business, unearthing the intricate balance between departmental roles, and witnessing their collective influence on overall performance. Recently, we had the pleasure of diving into these realms during a heart-to-heart with Christian Castaneda, a … Read More
The Economist magazine has just produced a wonderful playground for thought leaders, called “Open Future”. The Economist has always championed free trade, and that has led naturally to championing freedom in many forms. As they write: “One of the world’s … Read More
People have different learning styles. Not everyone thinks visually, although most people do. This is important for game developers like Andromeda Simulations to remember, because we specialize in the visual display of information. But we also have to pay attention … Read More
Bureaucracy! Can’t we get rid of it? Of course there need to be rules and guidelines for actions and decisions in a government department. You can’t have arbitrary decision-making as the standard process. The problem is that, even if the … Read More
We all know the world is changing, and that the speed of change is increasing. Or at least, we say we do. But not everyone embraces change. If you are already at the top of the heap, you might prefer … 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
We often look at business acumen as a group of business skills competencies including finance, strategy and decision-making. Today I was reviewing some post-workshop comments from an Income/Outcome program in Japan, and I realized that ‘big picture understanding’ may not … Read More
Hewlett-Packard is in the news at the moment over a reassessment of the value of UK-based Autonomy which it bought last year. Autonomy is a world leader in “meaning-based computing”, the analysis and use of all the unstructured information that … Read More
I’m in an airport. I’m in Dammam where I taught a 3-day Financial Acumen workshop for Saudi Electricity last week, flying to the Netherlands to teach a 3-day Managing a Global Business workshop for Heinz this week. Then I have … Read More