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StrategyDriven Professional Podcast Episode 4 – Skills Mismatch: Business Acumen and Strategy Execution

Strategy Driven

Episode 4 – Skills Mismatch: Business Acumen and Strategy Execution explores the importance of acquiring and maintaining business acumen skills as a key component of strategy execution. marketplace shortage of executives and managers with business acumen skills and the impact on companies with this skills deficiency.

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GC33: Playing a Better Game of Business | with Simcha Gluck of FreshBiz

Engaging Leader

As long-time listeners of Jesse’s podcasts know, he’s passionate about the power of business and communication to make a positive difference in communities and in individual lives. FreshBiz Global is a “For-Benefit” training company with a mission to infuse fun, multidimensional winning, and smart thinking into organizations around the world.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

obscures the tectonic economic shift in global retail. Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. WWWabs go mainstream worldwide next year.

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The Portable Leader Is the New “Organization Man”

Harvard Business Review

I met Tanya years ago, at a global corporation where she led a business unit and enjoyed a reputation as a formidable mentor. Jennifer and I set out to answer these questions, together with Jack Wood at CEIBS, in a study of young managers’ experiences at an international business school that we shall call “Blue.”