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.

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Is Your Business Prepared for the Avian Flu?

The London Chamber of Commerce reported that only one in five businesses would survive a 12-week outbreak of avian flu. Will your business be one of them? Learn how to innoculate your company against the avian flu with an emergency plan....

Is Your Organization Ripe for Disruption? 5 Tell-Tale Signs

Disruption can be a positive transformative force, infusing an organization with a fresh sense of purpose and renewed energy.

Key to M&A Success: Aligning Organizational Capabilities to Drive Strategy

If you’ve ever worked in a company that was acquired, but several years later it still felt like the two companies were separate, you know that merging businesses financially doesn’t necessarily result in a full integration of the organizations.

Kid Gloves or Iron Fist: How Fast and Flexibly to Approach Post-Merger Organizational Integration

Too often, HR's responsibility has been to agree to whether a merger should take place, whereas its strategic involvement would be better spent in identifying ways to make the proposed alliance work effectively. Besides, HR's vote about a merger...

Leaders, Meet Your Future Selves

Are you so focused on dealing with the everyday challenges of your business that you forget to look toward the future? That has to change, because the success of your organization depends on how well you figure out what’s ahead. Here are five strategies to help you visualize the future from the here

Leading Turnarounds: Avoiding Early Mistakes

How to effect a successful business turnaround.

Learn How to Develop a Great Business Plan

Learn how the history of Alexander the Great can help us perfect our strategic plan.

Making Change Happen in a Global Age

In his book Epic Change: How to Lead Change in a Global Age, Timothy R. Clark shares his successfully field-tested approach to change that combines strategic and tactical tools to pull energy out of an organization to respond to disruptive outside forces....

Making Strategic Alliances Work-the Cisco Way

Thirteen percent of Internet networking giant Cisco's total business comes from strategic alliances. In our exclusive interview, the firm's Director of Marketing gives us the inside scoop on how the company has successfully created a culture that...

Managerial Rx-How to Get Rid of Bad Apples

A new study shows that your company's bad apples aren't just annoying; if they're not properly dealt with they can easily spoil your entire corporate culture. It's up to managers to take decisive action to try to reform bad apples or, if that doesn't...