Written by Nikolai from Income|Outcome Developing strong business acumen and financial literacy in leadership candidates can be a challenge for any business. Identifying when those candidates are ready to be promoted to the next level is even harder. When talent … Read More
Andromeda Simulations International teaches business literacy workshop for free! We recently partnered with the Centre for Training and Innovation to run a business literacy workshop on Eleuthera. And this Income|Outcome workshop was provided pro bono, because the founders of Andromeda … Read More
The Economist has a recent article (“Revisiting Ricardo”) on the reasons behind the growing economic inequalities within the poorest countries. One point discussed is that better educated and better skilled individuals are able to connect with individuals and companies in … Read More
In February, Singapore released a Labour Force Survey Supplement on Training: almost one third of the country’s entire workforce received structured training to improve job skills in 2013, a proportion that has been rising in recent years. It is required … Read More
I’m a business owner. I value stability, but I also value improvements. I value low taxes, but I also value a well-educated populace and well-maintained transportation systems. I value freedom from unnecessary bureaucracy, but I also value beneficial controls and … 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
Americans and Canadians think they have problems with bureaucracy. I agree that bureaucracy can be an evil that prevents business development and stifles entrepreneurial initiative and limits an entire country to being an economic backwater. I’m not talking about an … Read More
What’s up with Minnesota, anyway? They ban this, they ban that… “Minnesota bans Bisphenol A” – well, at least for baby’s bottles and sippy-cups. The rest of us can die of cancer from the linings of cans. A lot of … Read More
To a lot of people working in large (and not so large) businesses, the word “Finance” means one of two things: the whole time-consuming, confidence-threatening mess of numbers associated with budgets, plans or – argh! – ratios (or even worse … Read More
Business acumen: “Keenness and speed in understanding and deciding on a business situation.” The need for this is particularly strong when your industry is being unexpectedly disrupted. You might think that disruptions are essentially driven by technological change, and therefore usually only … Read More