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		<title>Birthday Take Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Cope, the owner of Acumen Learning, has the tradition of a company dog pile for each employee birthday boy. On his 50th birthday, out of justified fear of getting taken down, Kevin hired 2 bouncers and his three sons to protect him. Unbeknownst to his employees, they were to keep him from hitting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing The Big Picture: Foreword</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like worthy causes, worthy projects require our time. Over the last year I have spent time writing, editing, and re-editing my very first book, Seeing the Big Picture. And I&#8217;m happy to announce that it will be available in bookstores this spring. As a best selling author and business executive, I knew from the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employees Connecting with Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Richards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Business Review recently described that business competition used to be like traditional theater; where the actors had clearly defined roles, and the customers paid for their tickets and passively watched what takes place on stage. Now the scene has changed and is more reminiscent of experimental theater of the 1960’s and 70’s where everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs was crazy…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first real job was for a struggling software company named Novell. I was actually hired in March of 1997, laid off a week later, and then hired back. As 1998 approached I read an article that predicted that Novell was going to be swallowed up in a merger or an acquisition and that Apple&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Division of Labor, Unity of Purpose</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So often in our attempts to get on the same page, we overlook the fact that organizations—like books—have many different pages. It’s how all of the pages combine to create the entire book, or the entire organization, that is most important. In your company (and most others), the various functions and departments (the pages) have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone who thinks business first…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Wright</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some VP over at Netflix has had it with HR not getting it. They recently posted a job opening for a Director of HR who, &#8220;…thinks business first, customer second, team and talent third.&#8221; Further, they make it clear that they are NOT looking for, &#8220;A Change Agent, an OD Practitioner, a SHRM Certificate, a People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to impact Cash…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real World Application]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cash is fuel. Without it, the engine of a business can’t run, the various moving parts can’t function, and eventually the business slows down and dies. But for businesses flush with cash, the engine keeps revving faster and faster.  In a 1979 interview, Fred Smith the founder of Federal Express said, &#8220;People thought we were bananas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the Big Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Cope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We understand our jobs. The big picture, on the other hand, seems so complex. Complexity is an underlying challenge in any business, regardless of size, industry, or stage of development. Large companies, especially, have many moving parts—departments and divisions (always reorganizing), product lines (always changing), layers of management, unclear decision-making processes, shifting budgets, new strategies. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 20:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our client&#8217;s love us. If you give us 45 minutes of your time we think you&#8217;ll likely love us too. Here&#8217;s a recent email from one of our fans… Hello Sharon, Below are the survey results from the Building Business Acumen segment of the April 26-27, 2011 Manager of Managers &#38; Manager Workshop.  We were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People. Our greatest asset?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Barclay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I present the asset portion of our Building Business Acumen course one of the participants will usually suggest, “in our company people are our greatest asset”. I will usually push back to determine how strong their conviction is and will find the class as a whole defending their colleague’s expression in adamant agreement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Hours of Overtime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leroy Hartman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business acumen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Up at 5 am and off to the office two hours early to help your team finish up that big project that’s expected to be the next most pivotal moment for your company and personal career.  Well, at least that is what you tell yourself as you race in and battle the daily grind. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Acumen: 300% ROI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a leader in the aerospace and defense industry hired MetrixGlobal (an independent Training ROI research firm) to evaluate their Building Business Acumen® course (that&#8217;s us). At the beginning of the course we asked the participants the same ten questions that we&#8217;ve been asking at the beginning of every course since 2002. How much cash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on your customer now… more than ever. Period.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Cook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real World Application]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you look at the challenges that businesses of all industries constantly fixate on, not many are more acute right now than the challenge of gaining and sustaining a level of sales growth that satisfies stakeholders. That&#8217;s hard to do in our current economic  reality. REALLY hard.&#160; Consumers are spending less, and therefore businesses can’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fifth Driver: People</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever taken our course, or sat in one of Kevin&#8217;s presentations you&#8217;ve seen our Five Business Drivers model. Cash is measured on the Cash Flow Statement, Profits are measured on the P&#38;L, Assets are measured on the Balance Sheet, and analyzing these financials over a period of time will help you measure Growth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalizing On Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IBM Institute for Business Value and IBM Strategy &#38; Change recently published the results of their biennial study that attempts to better understand the challenges and goals of today’s CEOs (a link to this report is at the end of this article). IBM&#8217;s own CEO, Samuel J. Palmisano, gives a concise summary of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Whole New Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read that Oprah was invited to give the commencement address at Stanford University, and that she gave each graduate a copy of the book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, by business writer Daniel Pink. Well I wasn&#8217;t about ready to let all of those Stanford grads rule the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Acumen Job Postings Surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers like Google, Microsoft, American Express, and GE to name just a few, are increasingly looking to hire people with business acumen &#8211; and it&#8217;s not just the finance departments that are looking for business savvy employees. For example, you&#8217;ll find job openings from sales, HR, and engineering all looking for employees with business acumen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benchmarking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leroy Hartman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Acumen 360º Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Benchmarks are an important consideration when looking at the overall change in improvement or success of a business. Decision makers that are looking to be an agent of change will typically look at three measurements: Internal benchmarks (ROI, ROE, ROA) External competitive benchmarks (company #1 ROI compared to company #2 ROI) External economic benchmarks (Sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLO &amp; Talent Management Forum Feedback</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read our last two posts you are well aware that Kevin Cope gets raving feedback whenever he has an opportunity to speak. Well, the accolades continue to come in and I&#8217;m going to blog them, until someone tells me to stop. Recently Kevin received a perfect 5 on his Speaker Evaluation and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHRM Top Rated Speaker!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SHRM 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE &#38; EXPOSITION featured more than 150 breakout sessions featuring leading experts speaking on some of the most important HR topics, including talent management, legislative compliance, strategic HR practices, and global HR issues. Twenty-five of these experts received a speaker rating of 4.8 or higher (out of 5), making an exclusive list [...]]]></description>
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