Analytical Skills 
Improve business decisions by learning how to gather, interpret and present data.

Develop specialized skills and strategies to help you assess patterns, identify relevant questions, gain data-driven insights and effectively share analytical information with others.

Topics

Getting onto the Path of Strategic Change

Many companies are out of kilter as the pace of change increases, making it difficult to remain current in the marketplace, according to Allen Adamson and Joel Steckel, co-authors of Shift Ahead: How the Best Companies Stay Relevant in a Fast-Changing World (AMACOM, 2017).

Getting the “Right Start” in Managing a Successful Business

Learn the keys to successful management.

Gimme a Break!

Attention all you work-obsessed executives out there. Here's a novel leadership strategy for next quarter: take a real vacation (that means seeing more than the airport lounge and the hotel). And leave the laptop and mobile phone at home. "If they need you," says former CEO Sander Flaum, "they'll fi

Give Change a Chance!

How leaders can overcome employees' resistance to change in the workplace.

Giving Employees a Reason to Care

Here are seven reasons to commit emplooyees to the company's culture.

Global Leadership Development: Everybody's Game

Here are insights and opinions of nearly 1,200 practitioners on global leadership development programs in the world.

Global Leadership Development

The purposeful development of global competencies and capabilities among leaders is essential to organizational effectiveness and competitive edge. This fifth iteration of the global leadership development (GLD) study shows little progress on the part of most employers in equipping their leaders to

Good Leadership in Challenging Times

All leaders need to learn how to deliver bad news to employees—and not only in tough times.

Governance: More Than Staying Out of Jail

At the heart of good governance is accountability -from the board of directors to the CEO, to other executives and managers. Certainly, legislation is not enough for significant improvements in governance. The attitude of management is as important,...

Goodbye Superman; Hello Team!

Sander A. Flaum has some advice for hard-driving, stressed-out senior executives: don’t try to be Superman. He predicts that the most successful leaders of the future will look to the top chiefs of the past (Jack Welch, for example) who built A+ teams to share the burden—and the glory.