The Business Acumen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in the Corporate World

• • Author: Steven Haines

  • Summary: The main idea behind The Business Acumen Handbook is to help managers understand the pillars of their company’s business, and to operate more effectively and efficiently. After reading this book, you'll be able to:

    • Understand and apply the dimensions of business acumen that focus on people, processes, projects, and products so that you can see the “big picture of business”

    • Incorporate finance, strategy, and performance management into your professional mindset

    • Develop a model for how to effectively communicate with, and influence others.

    • Understand complex business situations, evaluate facts and data, and make better decisions

    • The book is filled with tools, templates, exercises, and guidelines. It also introduces readers to their own individual business acumen assessment so that they can create a purposeful career and professional development strategy.

Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company

• • Author: Kevin Cope

  • Summary: Whether you're on the manufacturing floor or sitting in the corner office, you can learn how to follow the drivers through to measurable results conquering your fear of numbers. Using Kevin's simple explanations of the most important metrics presented in the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows, you'll be able to quickly review financial reports for signs of success or impending doom.  Convincingly communicate your ideas to leaders, improve your team's performance, even launch a successful business of your own. No matter your goal, give yourself the foundational knowledge every businessperson needs, and discover new strategies for proving your value.

The Street-Smart MBA: Mastering Business Acumen Without Going To School

• • Author: Ian Fishwick

  • Summary:  As we enter the world of Covid-19 and its' aftermath, there has never been a better time to go back to business fundamentals. He hopes that this book helps in a small way to the rebuilding of our economies and the rebirth of our business community. Ian shares stories and anecdotes about what he has learned from being a Managing Director and Chief Executive, for nearly three decades. This is not a textbook. Each story has a doodled image, the story itself and then a summary of the key lessons. Each story is only a few pages. You can dip in and out of the book, but many can't put it down and find themselves reading it all.The section on bank borrowing is for people who are serious about setting up a business and want to know how to deal with banks. Lessons that you rarely see anywhere else.

Better Business Acumen: A Guide to Building Corporate Savvy

• • Authors: Steven Cavaleri, David Freeman

  • Summary:  Highly effective leaders understand that problems and opportunities do not exist in isolation from the other parts of the company. An underlying truth of organizational science is that any so-called solutions, new policies, or project initiatives are inextricably connected to the rest of the organization. Whether you recognize these subtle ties or not is another matter. Taking actions that ignore these connections is not only a recipe for becoming ineffective in solving problems, but it may worsen existing ones. On the other hand, highly effective leaders learn to leverage the subtle forces at play in the background of every complex problem-solving situation. This is not magic, though, at times, highly effective solutions to complex problems seem like magic. These truths are embedded in every aspect of life including medicine, public policy, sports, and companies -- from the largest to the smallest.

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