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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Jon Bidwell on Driving Innovation from Within

When Jon Bidwell became the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.’s first ever chief innovation officer, his mission was to increase the speed, pace, and profitability of Chubb’s products and services, involving a global network of 10,000 employees. Bidwell realized that the best way to generate innovation

Jonah Sachs on Unsafe Thinking

Sometimes the more we know, the more we fall into a trap. How many times have we shot down ideas because we know they haven't worked in the past. It's time to break out of that monotonous thinking. Jonah Sachs , author of Unsafe Thinking , joins us to talk about ways we can learn to think more creat

Joseph Badaracco on Managing in the Gray

When faced with a difficult decision, Joseph Badaracco wants you to gather information like a manager and make a decision like a human being. Meaning, there are plenty of processes to use to get to the bottom of a tricky situation but in the end you need to rely on your own best judgement, whether y

Josh Bernoff on Keeping Ahead of the Technology Trends

Customers have turned out to be supersavvy when it comes to technology. It’s common practice to check the product reviews of everything from restaurants to the new vacuum cleaner before anyone even considers buying something. Josh Bernoff wants companies to embrace this tech-friendly mentality, to t

Josh Bersin on the Upswing in E-Learning

According to Josh Bersin , learning technology expert, the decrease in spending on learning and development in the corporate sector due to the economic downturn is starting to creep its way back up, and technology is at the forefront. In this episode of Edgwise, Bersin discusses how companies includ

Josh Leibner and Gershon Mader on the Power of Strategic Commitment

Most managers and executives don’t have a clear system for ensuring the support they need from those around them. In The Power of Strategic Commitment (AMACOM), authors Josh Leibner and Gershon Mader advise on how improve strategic processes by enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, s

Joseph Grenny on Vital Behaviors for Positive Influence

Most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools and techniques of the world's most influential people. But this is about to change. From the best-selling author of Cr

Josh Spodek on the Steps to Leadership

You wouldn't learn how to play piano by starting with musical theory. Leadership training is exactly the same. Josh Spodek is here to talk about his new book, Leadership Step by Step , published by AMACOM, the book that will get you out there to start practicing leadership in the real world.

Josh Linkner on Thinking about What Can Be

In The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation , author Josh Linkner discusses re-inventing, creating something anew, and imagining what “can-be” instead of “what-is.” Linkner suggests several strategies for re-invention, but one of the most important is the habit

Josh Sullivan & Angela Zutavern on the Mathematical Corporation

Machine automation and AI are the way of the future. That might seem frightening but the leaders at the forefront of this movement have been working together to make sure AI is done right. Josh Sullivan & Angela Zutavern , authors of The Mathematical Corporation , join us with stories of excitin