Why Every Leader Needs to Develop Business Acumen
Wouldn’t we all like to be viewed as business experts? To have business acumen is to bring keen judgment to business-related decisions, but having that sort of expert ability is rarely innate.
Wouldn’t we all like to be viewed as business experts? To have business acumen is to bring keen judgment to business-related decisions, but having that sort of expert ability is rarely innate.
Jim McKelvey is the co-founder of Square and author of the book Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.
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