Business Acumen

Helping you learn how to determine your company's best growth opportunities and how to pursue them.

CEO Skills

Some areas of skill must be wielded personally by the CEO, and we help in all these areas. They typically include:

Managing Executives in Functional Areas

CEOs of mid-market firms typically surround themselves with executives who should know more than the CEO in their own area of responsibility. It can be a challenge to know enough about each specialty to hire, set objectives and hold accountable key executives. We help the CEO in this area. Common functional areas in which we help the CEO manage their top team include Finance, Product Development, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development, Operations, Human Resources

We also work in the areas of Leadership Acumen and Interpersonal Acumen.

 

 

Business Acumen Articles

  • Five Critical Determinants of CEO Performance

    After five years as a top-level consultant, here are my top five questions for a CEO. But the path to answering “yes” to all five questions can be a long and winding one.

  • Transparency Is Not Advised for Future Events

    What would you reveal about the future direction of your company or a specific employee? If big changes are in the wind – M&A, reduction in force, or outright sale – here are some specific suggestions on how the CEO and their top team should deal with disclosure.

  • Strategy Tinkering

    First in the 12-part series Defeating Corporate Distraction comes tinkering with a business strategy. This can become a huge distraction when the company and its leadership are driving hard toward a specific goal and complete focus on execution is required.

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