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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How Can We Plan Successfully in Today's Difficult Times?

In today’s difficult and changing times one of the most important competencies for success is the ability to anticipate what is going to happen in the future.

How Employee Ownership Benefits Executives, Companies, and Employees

Just over 10 years ago, John Wright decided to sell the family business to its employees.

How to Get Started Developing a Corporate AI Strategy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a not a cure-all solution to every corporate problem. It’s a rapidly emerging technology capable of making a significant difference to your bottom line, but AI still has a long way to go before it can provide the solutions that many organizations expect it to deliver.

How to Plan Like a Leader

It doesn't matter what your job title is. Among your responsibilities is to act as the leader of your team. And as a leader, your tasks include leading your group in planning-understanding the corporate strategy and then in developing your unit's goals in light of that strategy and the plan to meet

How to Practice Strategic Diversity Management (SDM)

Here's the first step to bring diversity management to a whole new level-beyond finger-pointing and well-meaning "initiatives" and toward a shared goal of building robust organizations. That first step is to understand "strategic diversity management," a way of looking at diversity to ensure you mak

How to Predict the Future to Transform Your Business

Using "flash foresight" to predict future trends and to spur innovation.

How to Successfully Manage Organizational Change - AMA

In today’s organizations, leaders must be prepared to manage organizational change. Change in the workplace is inevitable, and the effective management of a change initiative plays a large role in transformative success.

In Defense of Consensus

One of our most cherished precepts about management is that decisions are best left to individual leaders who can make the tough calls. Not necessarily, says Larry Dressler, author of <i>Consensus Through Conversation</i>. Consensus-based decisions...

Integrating a New Workforce: A Minicase Study

This article looks into the past and shows how in 1961 Corning overcame racial turmoil when it located a plant in Danville. The article is by one of the company’s leaders, and offers a step-by-step description of the company’s collaborative methodology, one that can be adapted today where cooperatio

Interview with Cal Turner Jr.: Lessons from AMA Set Company’s Future

AMA Quarterly talked with Cal Turner Jr., who turned his father’s company, Dollar General Corp., into the brand it is today. Turner was the CEO of Dollar General from 1977 to 2003. He wrote a book taking a look behind the scenes called My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar Ge