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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Vijay Govindarajan on the Three Box Solution

If you want to succeed in the future you have to put down roots now. Vijay Govindarajan , author of The Three Box Solution , joins us to talk about the three key steps you need to take to succeed and which of those steps you're probably overlooking.

Viking Laws and the Art of Managing a Business

Four Viking laws helped to start a beverage business in Romania.

Vineet Nayar on Achieving Success by Putting Employees First, Customers Second

Nelson Mandella, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr. They all had something in common: the ability to inspire people and make them want to change. Vineet Nayar looks to them as an example of how to effectively manage a company, by inspiring and listening to the employees and making them the prior

Understanding What's Behind Change Firms

An interview with McKinsey's Claudio Feser on his study of serial innovators.

Virtual Management Provides Tangible Results

An effective manager needs to acknowledge the challenges and methodology unique to managing virtual teamwork.

Voices from the Front: On Leadership

Senior executives may get all the praise and glory, but mid-level leaders are the heart and soul of organizational success. No group knows more about the nuts-and-bolts of what it means to be a leader. How do they define leadership? What challenges do...

Voices from the Front: On Mentoring

What makes a good mentor? Does mentoring still play an important role in today's corporate world? What impact do mentors have on an individual's career? We asked a panel composed of members of the AMA community to share their thoughts on this and...

Voices from the Front: On Silos

In one of the literal definitions of the word, a silo is a structure used to store and launch missiles. That definition can also apply to the term as it's used to describe the organizational structures that act as barriers between departments, since...

Wal-Mart's Culture Shock

Wal-Mart stunned the advertising industry when it parted ways with its senior vice president of marketing communications last month amid allegations of personal and professional misconduct. Perhaps the former rising star's most serious crime, however,...