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acumen related skill development
I’ve spent too much of my life in meetings, but I recognize that in today’s business meetings, however inefficient, are part of life and an important place to encourage others to support your business ideas.
I realize that meetings are where we offer up our best ideas, put our support behind key people and projects, and voice our objections when we disagree.… Read more
Here’s a simple 4×6 card with some if the best financial advice you’ll ever receive from University if Chicago Professor Harold Pollack. But the lesson here is that once you have an income that you can live off and can save a little bit besides, managing your finances shouldn’t be all that hard.
Cheap. Pollack’s only investment rule is to buy inexpensive diversified mutual funds or ETFs.… Read more
When I was a boss, there was nothing more frustrating than dealing with a subordinate that just waffled and talked without purpose. I felt that they just didn’t get our business.
Now I realize they just didn’t get me.
So the lesson in effectively communicating bosses, is to think like them and work with them the way they want to be worked with.… Read more
You’re at a company event and someone asks your views on China vs Japan in North Asia, or whats your perspective of the problems in the middle east… or what do you think will happen in 2014.
You need some cogent answers to difficult questions, and more importantly how they may impact your business.
So for your education, here are three extracts from Quartz.com… Read more
Although my first job was as a Sales Representative and my second job was as a Sales and Product Manager, I didn’t really get interested in how to enhance fundamental Sales performance until I became a General Manager. Before that I was too busy doing thngs to think about how to improve what I was doing.
At that time I had the privilege to work with Guinness Overseas Ltd, a company now part of Diageo.… Read more