ASTD 2013: D.I.B.s on Business Acumen

Doing Is Believing: Get Your D.I.B.s on Business Acumen!   How can experiential learning highlight the key components of business acumen? How should business acumen be understood by managers? How can they enhance their skills, and achieve better results for the … Read More »

Business Acumen – fearless with finance

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 »

More Context with the Company Board

Information is only useful when contextualized. The last post included the Company Board for Apple’s 2008 year end financial result; you can look at the income statement in the context of the balance sheet; and you can look at the … Read More »