Posts Tagged: business

  • A humorous editorial illustration of a meeting of intelligent professionals behaving irrationally—experts fixating on familiar solutions, everyone debating minor details, the boss dominating the discussion and others reluctantly agreeing, while one frustrated participant watches the meeting unravel.

    Meeting behaviours

    Australian professionals are experienced and well-educated yet put them in meetings with clear objectives, agendas to address, or problems to solve and peculiar behaviours start to manifest. The Ringelmann effect suggests that the more people in a meeting the less value they contribute. Max Ringelmann discovered in the 1880s that as more people pulled on […]

  • Acumen means sharpness of mind, the ability to make accurate and intelligent judgments

    Entrepreneurs with acumen

    Acumen is a word that should be familiar to you. It means sharpness of mind, the ability to make accurate and intelligent judgments. We hear acumen most often when describing entrepreneurs; in that they are said to have business acumen. Acumen is a word that has been around since the early sixteenth century when it was borrowed from […]

  • The Business Section of the newspaper

    Do you mean BUSINESS?

    The evolution of the word business has followed a similar path to the evolution of a business. We know that running an organisation keeps you in a state of busyness. However, the words business and busyness aren’t closely related  but they did both originate from the word busy. What is a business? We can define business as […]