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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It's Monday Morning...10 Tips to Get Started on Innovation

A recent AMA/HRI study found that although most organizations say that innovation is a top priority, few companies are actually good at it. So if your company’s innovation efforts need a jumpstart, here are 10 quick ways to get with the program....

It's Time to Review the Performance Review

A new approach to performance reviews.

J. Byrne Murphy on the Best Ways to Do Business Overseas

When   J. Byrne Murphy   moved to France in the early 1990s to launch the European division of MacArthur Glen, a company that operates high fashion outlet malls, he was sure the venture would be a slam dunk. The MacArthur Glen concept had been a tremendous success in America, and the fashi

Jack Mitchell on Why You Should Hug People at Work

We work in a 21st century world where email has replaced conversation, call centers have decamped to India and help lines have turned into a series of automated messages. And while many of us are habitually reaching for our cellphones and blackberries, there remains a part of us that longs for a lit

Jack Stahl on Frameworks for Successful Leadership

Jack Stahl became a top executive of two world-famous corporations - Cola Cola and Revlon - before the age of 50. In his book Lessons on Leadership , Stahl offers the down to earth approach to business leadership that fueled his meteoric rise through the corporate ranks. Stahl organizes his leadersh

Jackie Barretta on Primal Teams

Jackie Barretta , author of Primal Teams , published by AMACOM, wants you to know that emotions do belong at work. You want people who are positively emotional about a project they're working on and are happy and motivated to do the work necessary. People think most creatively when they're in an opt

Jake Breeden on Tipping Sacred Cows

Some workplace virtues are not as beneficial as they seem. Jake Breeden talks about the pitfalls and the duality of some of those workplace virtues that seem helpful at first but cause more harm than good in the long term. He also discusses the best way to avoid those unintended consequences by disc

James Kilts on Doing What Matters

James M. Kilts has led three major companies - Gillette, Nabisco, and Kraft -into prosperity by doing what matters on the fundamentals. In Doing What Matters , a vivid first-person account of his executive experiences, he reveals his system for success that is both cutting-edge and back-to-basics. M

James Kouzes on Rising to the Leadership Challenge

The Leadership Challenge , one of the best-selling leadership books of all time, is considered by many as the most trusted source on becoming a better leader. With this fourth edition, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner issue a new collection of case studies relevant to today's world to illustrate

James Morgan on Strategic Execution and Process

Strategy execution is the crux of success in business. So why do less than half of companies polled in a recent Booz Allen survey feel they are meeting their targets? Dr. James Morgan shares insight from his 30 years of experience of sharpening strategic visions and implementing methods to see them