4 February 2013

acumen

[uh-kyoo-muhn, ak-yuh-]

noun

– keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.

Origin:
1525–35; < Latin acūmen sharpness, equivalent to acū- (stem of acuere to sharpen; see acute) + -men noun suffix

Related forms
a·cu·mi·nous [uh-kyoo-muh-nuhs] adjective
un·a·cu·mi·nous, adjective

Today’s aphorism

‘I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress’.

– Mark Zuckerberg

On this day

4 February 1948 – birth of Alice Cooper, (Vincent Damon Furnier), legendary American shock rocker.

4 February 1948 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) is granted independence from Britain, but remains a member of the British Commonwealth.

4 February 1959 – the barbie doll is invented by Ruth Handler.

4 February 1993 – Yugoslavia is dissolved and replaced by a union between Serbia and Montenegro.

4 February 2004 – Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg.