Good journalists have known for a while that the way you rattle Trump is by honestly reporting on his business acumen.
These books tell essentially the same story -- one that the best newspapers and magazines have already reported with care, acumen and as much precision as possible, considering that it involves the theft of highly classified information as well as the dark inner life of a deeply unhappy, secretive and unsavory man.
His news acumen, developed over nearly half a century of reporting, editing and teaching, coupled with his take-no-prisoners analysis, have made the Web pages of Rendezvous both wondrously broad and deeply provoking.
Helen Coster traveled to Bahawalpur, Pakistan to report her cover story about the Acumen Funds Jacqueline Novogratz.
The most irresistible comparison to make with this new metric is in balancing Snapchat's video-viewing acumen with that of Facebook, who reported in their quarterly earnings report that they were racking up over 8 billion video views on a daily basis.
Timothy Mo's novels report on colonial predicaments in East Asia with a political acumen reminiscent of Joseph Conrad.
While noting that Mr. Martin will bring financial acumen to the management of Elan, which recently reported a $1 billion loss for the third quarter, some analysts also expressed concern over longstanding ties between Elan and Merrill Lynch.
Last week, Monitor and Acumen Fund shed light on this problem in a Gates Foundation-funded report "From Blueprint to Scale: The Case for Philanthropy in Impact Investing".
In October, HuffPost reported that Rattray had been meeting with venture capitalists, including Google Ventures, Bridges Ventures and Acumen Fund, among others.
While Apple's brand and public relations acumen are top-notch, an Apple-only technology worldview, coupled with its walled-garden approach and reported difficulties in adapting its research offerings to non-Apple platforms, may seriously hamper many research efforts.
