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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Partying During the Downturn

To party or not to party? For many corporate leaders, that is indeed the question as 2008 limps to a close. In the wake of layoffs and a general climate of belt-tightening, one thing is sure: nobody's partying like it's 1999....

Passion Brands: Turning Customers into Evangelists

How can a company turn customers into evangelists for the brand? It must fight “friction” in ways that improve customers’ lives, says Jeff Rosenblum, founding partner of digital marketing agency Questus and co-author of Friction: Passion Brands in the Age of Disruption (powerHouse Books, 2017).

Passionate Employees Are the Fast Track to Revenue Growth

Passionate employees are the heartbeat of great companies, says Lior Arussy, author of Passionate and Profitable....

No Excuses: Being Accountable for Your Own Success

How to accept responsibility for your own life, both successes and failures.

Paul B. Brown on Owning Your Future

Paul B Brown , author of Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy , published by AMACOM, argues that in order to be successful in any business one must think like an entrepreneur. You don’t have to quit your job and start a new business, but you do ha

Paul Gustavson on Teams of Leaders

Setting goals for employees may get them to complete tasks but making an employee understand their value in a real sense, down to each dollar spent and each dollar made, will get them really invested in their work. Paul Gustavson , author of Team of Leaders , publishing by AMACOM, joins us to talk a

Paul Carroll on Learning from the Worst Business Failures

The current conventional wisdom in the business world holds that execution is the key to a successful business strategy. Many experts have gone so far as to say that execution is more important than strategy. But, according to Paul Carroll , the coauthor of Billion-Dollar Lessons and a former Pulitz

Paul Falcone on Partnering with HR

Human Resources works best when it works with you. Whether it's sticking up for your rights while on the job or having a productive conversation when interviewing for the job, HR is there to be your ally, not your enemy. Paul Falcone is here to talk about ways to improve the interview process for bo

On Shaking Things Up

Today's business world is changing faster than ever. That's one of the conclusions of the 2006 Agility and Resilience in the Face of Continuous Change, a global study of organizations commissioned by American Management Association and conducted by the Human Resource Institute. Mark Vickers of HRI d

Paul Krugman on Staring Down Depression Economics

Edgewise is pleased to bring an extended conversation with Dr. Paul Krugman , Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, a regular columnist for the New York Times, and the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. In this interview Dr. Krugman provides a concise