Four Ways High-Performing Organizations are Adapting to the Age of Data

Framing Your Messages for Improved Business Communication

A frame is a lens through which people interpret the information they receive. As it relates to improving business communication, framing a message is about positioning it so that both the intention and the content are interpreted as they were meant.

Frank Pietrucha on How to Be a Supercommunicator

Technology is changing our vocabulary, creating new acronyms, buzzwords, and concepts every day. It can be hard to keep up. Frank Pietrucha, author of Supercommunicator , published by AMACOM, has plenty of tips on how to explain our technical knowledge to nontechnical listeners.

Fred Kofman on The Meaning Revolution

Can everyone run a marathon? Yes and no. A lot of people can but not tomorrow, not without training. The ones that want to will put in the work. To Fred Kofman , the same metric applies to leadership. It takes effort but the ones who put in the time will be able to learn how. He joins us to talk abo

From Crisis to Control

Is your organization controlling its projects, or vice versa? A successful project management system may require that a significant organizational cultural change take place-sooner rather than later....

From the Mouths of Babes: Get Everything You Want by Learning How to Negotiate Like a Child

Bill Adler identifies 45 tried-and-true negotiating strategies that have worked for kids since the beginning of time and explains how they can be adapted from the playground to the workplace.

From Worst to First in One Year—Why the Right Talent Matters

Lessons from the Red Sox on how to choose the best talent.

From Office Temp to Manager: An Interview with Sandra James, Former AMA Innovation Award Winner

As the entry deadline for AMA's 2007 Innovation Award for Administrative Professionals fast approaches (July 20), we thought it would be interesting to check in with a former winner to see what she's up to now. Sandra James (AMA's 2000 Innovation...

Futurism: A Growing Business Strategy

"The future ain’t what it used to be," Yogi Berra once said. Though tongue-in-cheek, this quote seems truer than ever. Many of us feel the future just gets here faster than it once did.

Futurism: The Antidote to Chaos

Author Eric Garland wants to take you on a journey to the final frontier. No, not space-the future. In this excerpt from his new book <i>Future, Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's Next</i>, Garland explains, "Everyone can be...