Developing Leaders and Teams Who See the Big Picture
Changing business models. Global market requirements. New AI technology considerations. To understand the strategic and financial implications of these pressures, your leaders and teams must be able to connect the dots when they’re making decisions. Building skills in business and financial literacy is what makes that possible.
Download: Connecting the Dots Through Business Acumen
Discover what business acumen is and where it fits into your organization.
This eBook will give you a clearer understanding of how differing levels of business acumen impact your organization, including your future readiness to handle new challenges.
An inability to connect operational decisions and activities with performance metrics and goals may only worsen given current hiring trends.
With stronger business acumen, leaders can break down organizational silos and bridge communication gaps to align priorities with goals.
Recent reports confirm that this resulting big-picture thinking tops the list of criteria enabling organizations to achieve desired business results.
Business acumen training that also focuses on building critical thinking will succeed in promoting more effective decision-making and contribute to better business outcomes.
It all comes
down to the ability to go
up and down the ladder
of abstraction . . . being
able to see the big picture
and the operational
implications, which are
signs of outstanding
leaders and strategists.”
Loizos
Heracleous
Professor of strategy at England’s Warwick Business School