Human Resources

Definition of business acumen and entrepreneurship

The business acumen and entrepreneurship competency involves mastering business management skills and effective managing resources -- human, financial and technological.

Entrepreneurial thinking and best business practices are routinely applied to core management areas. This competency also involves anticipating future trends to achieve a competitive advantage.

Books and manuals

Click on a title to get the book details, including description, from the Library's catalog system.

• The One Minute Entrepreneur by Kenneth H. Blanchard
• The $100,000+ Entrepreneur by Wendy S. Enelow
• Awakening the Entrepreneur Within by Michael E. Gerber
• Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management by Thomas Zimmerer

Electronic journal and newspaper articles

All electronic journals and newspaper articles can be searched via the County Library's online database.

• (2008). Advisers extend helping hand to young entrepreneurs. Investment News 12.17: 36.
• (2008). The business of startups is business: As the economy slumps, many entrepreneurs are looking past consumer websites to focus on products and services for companies. Business Week Online.
• Gumpert, David E. (2007). Entrepreneurs need a dose of cockiness; also: freshening e-mail templates, how the classics relate to entrepreneurship, new information-based business models, and more (what entrepreneurs need to know). Business Week Online.
• Maurer, M. (2008). Essential principles of entrepreneurship that I did not learn in school. Indianapolis Business Journal, 29.6: S7.
• Perman, S. (2006). Encouraging entrepreneurship at work. Business Week Online.
• Shinnar, R. , and C. Young. (2008). Hispanic immigrant entrepreneurs in the Las Vegas metropolitan area:
• Motivations for entry into and outcomes of self-employment. Journal of Small Business Management, 46.2: 242.