A new handbook on leadership produced for the Royal Navy has valuable lessons for business in the way cheerfulness, positive thinking and other ‘soft skills’ can help effective team management.
The triple Bafta award for the film Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, demonstates two valuable lessons for business.
Thoughts on arguably the most influential British politician of this century, who left an indelible mark on the world.
Acorn's Keith Longney has been working in Dubai every couple of months over the last year, assisting Hill International, one of the top international construction management companies.
Anyone who has ever dealt with the Government on major projects understands the complexities of getting it right first time under budgetary and schedule pressures, the difficulties of changes in specification or requirement, and of course intense public scrutiny.
Skanska, one of the UK’s leading construction and development businesses, has recently called on the expertise of Acorn to assist them in the development of a new team with responsibility for the company’s submissions and bid support. The newly formed submissions team is part of the organisations UK-wide preconstruction function.
Acorn is developing strategies to assist more effective partnership-working on the £150 million contract to create new Ministry of Defence intelligence facilities at RAF Wyton in Cambridgeshire.