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
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
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
When I was young and inexperienced in running business simulations, many years ago, I led a 3-day workshop for a Fortune 50 computer manufacturer in which the participants came from a variety of departments. People sat with their friends. The … 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
“Heaven is where the police are English, the mechanics are German, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, and the whole place is run by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the mechanics are French, the … Read More
Just because you follow the recommendations in the previous post to improve your decision-making by broadening your sources of information and opinions, it doesn’t mean all your problems are solved! What happens if everyone has a different opinion? Suppose you … Read More