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Business AcumenDefinition
Business Acumen is the ability to perform with insight, acuteness, and intelligence in the areas of commerce and/or industry. Make decisions and act in situations in which there is not enough information to be certain of outcome or implications of the decision.
Behaviors
An employee demonstrating this competency:
Importance of this Competency
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS The Business Acumen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in the Corporate World, by Steven Haines. 320 pages. Independently published, 2019. Business Acumen: In The Workplace (Global Workplace Skills Library), by Lori Gillin. 76 pages. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. Business Acumen (90-Minute Guide), by Michelle Halsey. 44 pages. Silver City Publications & Training, L.L.C., 2017. Dealers, Healers, Brutes and Saviors; Eight Winning Styles for Solving Giant Business Crises, by Gerald C. Meyer & Susan Meyers. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. E-Profit: High-Payoff Strategies for Capturing the E-Commerce Edge, by Peter S. Cohan. New York, NY: AMACOM, 2000. Executive’s Guide to E-Business: From Tactics to Strategy, by Martin Deise, Conrad Nowikow, Patrick King, & Amy Wright. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, by Berman, Knight & Case. 304 pages. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company, Kevin Cope. Greenleaf Book Group, 2012. Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster, by Bill Jensen. New York, NY: Perseus Press, 2001. Smart Choices : A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions, by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, & Howard Raiffa. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. The 2,000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization form ‘Stalled’ Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success, by Donald Michell, Carol Coles, & Robert Metz. New York, NY: AMACON, 2003. The Business of E-Commerce: From Corporate Strategy to Technology (Breakthroughs in Application Development), by Paul Richard May. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2000. The Illiterate Executive: An Executive's Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen, by Blair Cook. 240 pages. FriesenPress, 2016. WORKSHOPS & COURSES - PUBLIC, ONSITE, ONLINE findcourses.com. 10+ live & online courses. Educations Media Group (EMG). LinkedIn Learning. 20+ videos and online courses. Acumen Learning Basics of Business Acumen. 230 minutes on-demand course. American Management Association. Tel. 877-566-9441. Building Business Acumen: What the CEO Wants You to Know™. Online workshop. 7 hours online. FranklinCovey. Tel. 888-868-1776. Business Essentials Certificate Program: Forge a path to greater success with vital foundational business acumen skills. Three days classroom and virtual. American Management Association. Tel. 877-566-9441. Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers. Two days classroom and online. American Management Association. Tel. 877-566-9441. Zodiak The Game of Business and Strategy. Simulation. Paradigm Learning. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Back |