To help the braiders, Mr. Williams suggests that the city and community help the braiders to develop business acumen.
For young people who have not been in an office environment, such tasks are necessary to develop business acumen.
By the 1980's, pop stars who wanted to last had to develop business acumen, and Mr. Jones was already way ahead of them.
Through the centuries, princes, generals, monks, and farmers have played the game, not only to win but to build character and develop mental acumen.
WHEN a colleague told Julie Day, a lawyer in Fairfax, Va., that she was consulting an executive coach -- a new breed of personal trainer who helps clients develop business acumen and people skills -- Ms. Day was not impressed.
BU's Goldberg concurs: "You have to have depth in one area to develop scientific acumen," he says, "since there's a confidence that comes with depth in one field".
He developed basketball acumen, though, and a feel for the game, which guided the Pacers to a Central Division title and into the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Knicks.
Her lack of experience at running a large company may count against her (although much of her early career was at big regional reps including West Yorkshire Playhouse under Jude Kelly), but anyone who can remain so well liked and respected in the backstabbing world of British theatre must have highly developed political acumen.
He also developed business acumen in project management, team building, and leadership.
"Scientists spend their lives accumulating knowledge and developing technical acumen," he says, "but working for a business requires something else entirely--people skills.
Boxing is the way we develop the warrior acumen.
