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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Failing Your Way to Success

Had any good failures lately? If not, maybe you haven't had any great successes, either. Forward-thinking organizations looking to increase innovation have discovered that if they want their people to find out of the box solutions, they have to...

Fighting Poverty through Profits-An Interview with C.K. Prahalad

Acclaimed author C.K. Prahalad has devised a brilliant plan for helping the world's five billion poor people: transform them into consumers. His mission is to prove that it's possible to build a profitable win-win relationship between big business...

Finding Time When You Don't Have Any!

Learn how to better use time by identifying the biggest time wasters.

Five Qualities of Successful International Leaders

More than 1,000 studies have been conducted in the last 60 years in an attempt to determine the definitive styles, characteristics, or personality traits of great leaders. However, none of these studies has provided a definitive profile of the ideal leader.

For a Fresh Perspective, Stop Dancing and Get Out on the Balcony

While most businesspeople bow to the pressure to keep on dancing as fast as they can, savvy managers understand the value of spending a bit of time away from the action, gaining the perspective and insight that a short break "out on the balcony" can...

Guidelines for Effective Goal Setting in Organizations

Life is a goal-directed process. Organisms that fail to pursue and attain goals that satisfy their needs ultimately perish.

Harnessing Your Company's “Rudolphs” to Drive Innovation

How to identify and nurture your company's top innovators ("Rudolphs").

Hire Everybody

Savvy companies like Netflix have offered monetary prizes to any team who can solve a business problem for them.

Hitting the “Reset” Button: An Interview with Best-selling Author Kurt Andersen

In his illuminating new book Reset, Kurt Andersen has the following to say about the current state of America: “It’s the end of the world as we’ve known it, but it isn’t the end of the world.” In an exclusive interview with AMA, Andersen discusses how America can overcome the recent “shock to the sy

How Companies Get Smarter

Studies show medical units with more reported errors have better health outcomes for patients. The lesson of that example has important implications when it comes to organizational intelligence....