The Difference Between Acumen and Accruing
Acumen and accruing. Two words that share a few letters, and yet are miles apart in every other sense.
Acumen means you have something of use; accruing means you’re in the process of gathering stuff that isn’t necessarily useful.
Acumen means you connect the dots between idea, execution and success; accruing means you’re more concerned with collecting the dots as opposed to connecting them.
Acumen means you know your shit; accruing means you think anything below a certain number is shit.
In other words, someone with acumen will always – ALWAYS – beat someone that prefers accruing.
Because the numbers that come as a result of acumen far outstrip any importance that the simple act of accruing numbers offers.
Something to keep in mind when you next want results in anything you do…
G'Day Anne,
Danny Brown showed great acumen in providing you with the opportunity to blog about how one accrues
great hostility for misusing acumen and accruing.
I can't wait for you to take to task the ignorant idiots who say reticent when they mean reluctant..
As I keep repeating,:the purpose of communication is to convey meaning. The words are the carriage and grammar is the lubricant that keps the wheels turning.
Regards
Leon
Leon I need more lube, right? ;-)
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But I was told by DannyBrown social media is all about Fans and Followers. That the more I have the more successful I will be.
Accruing is the bane of email, social, and mobile marketing. Any form/platform that allows a consumer to sign up for future contact is accruing. And over time accruing drowns out the platform, the message, etc. And there is a reason the accruing platforms are the cheapest to use. The more blogs in my RSS reader or email alerts the fewer % I read. The more companies I sign up for email or mobile alerts the more they all become spam. The more people I connect with on Twitter and Facebook etc the lower the likelihood I see a post.
The key is how to show acumen to break through this. I go to this blog and some others manually. I go to one Facebook Brand page manually. It's because they have acumen.
HowieSPM Shame that so many companies put so much stock into the numbers that don't really mean that much, huh, mate?
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I get the gist - but the grammar police in me needs you to edit this to something that compares apples to apples.
Your choice:
"The difference between possessing acumen and accruing ___________" or "the difference between acumen and accrual."
Can't compare a noun to a verb there my friend.
LucretiaPruitt Sorry miss - I'll bare that in mined for future reverence. ;-)
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Eh Danny - clever little post.
Line to remember...
"Because the numbers that come as a result of acumen far outstrip any importance that the simple act of accruing numbers offers."
Still on Genesis over here I see.
easyP Cheers, sir. This is actually a custom design built from scratch on WordPress, no framework involved. :)
DannyBrown
Not Genesis or Headway - with you.
I'm a few posts behind and thought that I might catch up, then I saw the title of your previous post...
"Lessons From An A**hole"
I don't know.
Where have all the quality websites gone? LOL
Oh Danny Boy...
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