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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Why Your Corporate Strategy Should Be Dynamic

Whether you’re a startup producing the latest innovations or an established organization, your corporate strategic planning process must deliver a dynamic strategy to build agility organization-wide.

Why Your Employees Should Join the Army

What if everyone in your organization were as dedicated to its success as the CEO or the owner? The workforce would function as “an army of entrepreneurs,” which just happens to be the title of an insightful new book by Jennifer Prosek. Adopt her strategies and watch employee motivation, productivit

Why Zappos.com Pays New Hires $1,000 to Quit

Founded in 1999, the online shoe retailer Zappos.com has been an astonishing success story, growing to nearly $1 billion in sales. Even more impressive than its sales numbers, however, are the number of customers who rave about Zappos's customer...

Will Your Organization Survive the Coming Talent Shortage?

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a shortfall of 10 million workers by the year 2010. Here's what your organization should be doing today to prepare....

William Cohen on Peter Drucker and Practicality

Peter Drucker is a renowned thought leader in the business world. While his name is synonymous with management theory, sometimes it takes some work to turn that theory into practice. Enter William Cohen , former student and protegee of Peter Drucker himself. His new book The Practical Drucker , publ

William F Baker on Art as a Business

Artists usually chose their profession for the love of the craft but if they don't have some business skills they're going to get left behind. William F. Baker , co-author of The World's Your Stage , published by AMACOM, has tips on how to brand yourself, how to assess your competition, and act like

William Rothwell on Leveraging a Seasoned Talent Pool

While many employers have traditionally viewed their younger employees as their most precious assets, the truth is that their more seasoned workers are often their most valuable. In his new book, Working Longer (AMACOM), William J Rothwell gives recruiters, managers, and trainers the tools they need

Win-Win Is for Losers!

Wait a minute, that doesn't sound very politically correct, does it? The author of Black Belt Negotiating explains why people often unknowingly negotiate with the intention to fail. Here's how to make sure you wind up the big winner in...

Wisdom of the Shadow Warrior

Learn age-old martial arts secrets that will help you meet today's challenges and achieve balance in our exclusive interview with Jim Pritchard, author of <i>The Warrior Mind: Ancient Wisdom from the Martial Arts for Living a More Powerful Life</i>....

Winter Nie and William Dowell on Chinese Expansion

Foxconn, a Chinese factory that produces Apple's, among other's, products, made a lot of news this year due to allegedly appalling working conditions and low wages. According to Winter Nie and William Dowell , authors of the new AMACOM book In the Shadow of the Dragon , the negative assessment was b