As readers of this blog know, one of my primary objectives is to use this as a forum for continuing our learning, dialogues, and application of Business Acumen concepts back to your world to ultimately make the best business decisions to drive revenues, profits, and shareholder value.
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Last week I conducted a Business Leadership workshop for a group of high performing leaders at an industry association leadership development conference. In preparation for our session, we asked participants to fill out a survey of their top leadership challenges for the balance of the year.
The #1 identified challenge, with almost 35% of the vote, was “gaining alignment.” As a result, we built the topic into the session for discussion, learning, and application. This blog shares the ideas and output of the session and provides three practical answers of how to fix it the issue.
One of the most important aspects of having strong Business Acumen is being able to recognize and understand new ideas and trends in the business world. One of the hottest topics in global economics right now is the concept of Cryptocurrencies so I wanted to provide readers of our blog with some ideas, insights, and meaning as it relates to Business Acumen from a corporate business perspective.
As you will discover in my explanation below this is something that we should all know about as there are potential disruptors that should be weak signals on our Business Acumen radars.
The major holidays of the year – Winter Break, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving – are wonderful times to pause from the daily grind of work, get caught up on some sleep, spend time with family, cook something fun, and reflect on where things are, where things are going, and how we are going to get there.
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Courtney Meggs was having another tough day. As the founder and owner of Brew Squared, a new neighborhood shop that brews homemade coffees for customers in the morning and handcrafted beers in the evenings, Courtney was dealing with the usual list of daily challenges. Employees calling out sick, a coffee bean delivery that didn’t show up, a call from the bank asking where the latest credit card payment was, several irate customers complaining about the service, and a video call from her mother (a major investor of Brew Squared) contemplating moving to Arizona and asking for her money back.
Just another day in the world of a small business owner in Advantexe’s new business simulation Brew Squared.
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