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Seeing The Big Picture
''Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company'' is a self-help book published in March 2012 by Greenleaf Book Group. Written by the founder of Acumen Learning, Kevin R. Cope, it is a covers the topic of business acumen. The author opines that a deep understanding of a company can make its employees' work more fulfilling and purpose-driven by highlighting how they influence the success of their team, department, or organization. Cope presents what are described as five business drivers: cash, profit, assets, growth, and people. He argues that these are the building blocks of any business and contribute to its overall success. On March 25, ''Seeing the Big Picture'' reached number 4 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller List. It has been described as "an MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA pro ...
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Kevin R
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictionary of First Names''. Oxford University Press (2007) s.v. "Kevin". The feminine version of the name is (anglicised as ''Keeva'' or ''Kweeva''). History Saint Kevin (d. 618) founded Glendalough abbey in the Kingdom of Leinster in 6th-century Ireland. Canonized in 1903, he is one of the patron saints of the Archdiocese of Dublin. Caomhán of Inisheer, the patron saint of Inisheer, Aran Islands, is properly anglicized ''Cavan'' or ''Kevan'', but often also referred to as "Kevin". The name was rarely given before the 20th century. In Ireland an early bearer of the anglicised name was Kevin Izod O'Doherty (1823–1905) a Young Irelander and politician; it gained popularity from the Gaelic revival of th ...
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Business Acumen
Business acumen, also known as business savviness, business sense and business understanding, is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation (risks and opportunities) in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.Reilly, Dr. Raymond R and Reilly, Dr. Gregory P"Building Business Acumen" ''HR West'', December 2009. Additionally, business acumen has emerged as a vehicle for improving financial performance and leadership development.Summerfield, Brian"A Crisis in Leadership", ''Chief Learning Officer Magazine'', April 2008. Consequently, several different types of strategies have developed around improving business acumen. Characteristics Executive level thinking In his 2012 book, '' Seeing the Big Picture, Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company'', Kevin R. Cope put forward that an individual who possesses business acumen views the business with an "executive mentality" - they understand how the moving parts of a ...
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Greenleaf Book Group
Greenleaf Book Group is an independent book publisher and distributor, which was established by Clint Greenleaf in 1997. Greenleaf was a CPA and accountant at Deloitte & Touche before writing his first book, ''Attention to Detail'', in 1997 and then founding the company over his parents’ garage. The company is based on a business model where the author pays for the publishing under a selective imprint and retains all rights. It has been based in Austin, Texas, United States of America since 2004.Christopher Steiner, 2009-08-20"Book Publishing's Profitable Model" Forbes. Retrieved 2010-05-06. Clint Greenleaf moved to Chairman and Tanya Hall was appointed CEO in January 2014. Clint Greenleaf stepped down as Chairman in 2015 in order to focus on a new business startup, Home Plate Peanut Butter. See also *List of publishers *List of book distributors *Publishing Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the pub ...
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Self-help Book
A self-help book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems. The books take their name from ''Self-Help'', an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under "self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century. Early history Informal guides to everyday behaviour might be said to have existed almost as long as writing itself. Ancient Egyptian "Codes" of conduct "have a curiously modern note: 'you trail from street to street, smelling of beer...like a broken rudder, good for nothing....you have been found performing acrobatics on a wall!. Micki McGee writes: "Some social observers have suggested that the Bible is perhaps the first and most significant of self-help books". In classical Rome, Cicero's '' On Friendship'' and '' On Duties'' became "handbooks and guides...thr ...
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Business Acumen
Business acumen, also known as business savviness, business sense and business understanding, is keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation (risks and opportunities) in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.Reilly, Dr. Raymond R and Reilly, Dr. Gregory P"Building Business Acumen" ''HR West'', December 2009. Additionally, business acumen has emerged as a vehicle for improving financial performance and leadership development.Summerfield, Brian"A Crisis in Leadership", ''Chief Learning Officer Magazine'', April 2008. Consequently, several different types of strategies have developed around improving business acumen. Characteristics Executive level thinking In his 2012 book, '' Seeing the Big Picture, Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company'', Kevin R. Cope put forward that an individual who possesses business acumen views the business with an "executive mentality" - they understand how the moving parts of a ...
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New York Times Best Seller List
''The New York Times'' Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. John Bear, ''The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago'', Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. Since October 12, 1931, ''The New York Times Book Review'' has published the list weekly. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and non-fiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic. The list is based on a proprietary method that uses sales figures, other data and internal guidelines that are unpublished—how the ''Times'' compiles the list is a trade secret. In 1983 (as part of a legal argument), the ''Times'' stated that the list is not mathematically objective but rather editorial content. In 2017, a ''Times'' representative said that the goal is that the lists reflect authentic best selle ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ...
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1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by  2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following  0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the ...
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