How to Communicate a Strategy When You Don’t Agree with It

By Robert Brodo | Sep 21, 2017 10:04:00 AM

On Tuesday, I published a blog called Developing Accountability for Strategies Leaders May Not Agree With.  The focus was developing the skills of people who work for you who may not understand, buy-in, or be accountable for the change.  As a follow-up to that blog, I continue with the same theme, but from the perspective of a leader who is stuck in a situation of trying to communicate the change when you don’t agree with it.  The blogs are slightly in contrast, but they are both extremely realistic and focus on the skills and tools needed to be successful in the long run.

During a workshop I led earlier this week, a participant raised one of her most significant challenges she faces as a front-line leader and I will admit that in 25 years of facilitating leadership development workshops I’ve never heard it before.  Which means it’s either something new or it’s something not a lot of people like to talk about.

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Develop Accountability for Strategies Leaders May Not Support

By Robert Brodo | Sep 19, 2017 8:24:23 AM

As readers of this blog know, one of the objectives of publishing it twice a week is to identify and provide practical insights and tips to successfully overcome the Business Acumen, Business Leadership, and Strategic Business Selling challenges facing organizations every day.

Many of these blogs are generated from conversations and dialogues we have with clients or participants of our business simulation focused learning journeys.  During a recent conversation with a client, we discovered a new and perplexing challenge facing his company and one that was in desperate need of a talent development intervention.  His challenge…

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Digesting the Apple X Strategy

By Robert Brodo | Sep 14, 2017 8:04:26 AM

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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Why Is Gaining Business Alignment So Difficult?

By Robert Brodo | Sep 12, 2017 8:08:19 AM

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.

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What Business Professionals Should Know about Cryptocurrency

By Robert Brodo | Sep 7, 2017 8:56:45 AM

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.

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