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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Stanley McChrystal on Trusting Your Team

Stanley McChrystal doesn’t believe in extreme secrecy. Obviously there are limits, especially when it comes to national security, but keeping all information on a need-to-know basis requires someone knowing who needs to know. Wires get crossed and the wrong decisions are made. Trust your team, wheth

Stefan Swanepoel on Leveraging Your Animal Instincts

Here's a serious question: Are you an elephant or a crocodile? According to author and businessman Stefan Swanepoel , the answer could determine your career path and level of success. Stefan’s latest book Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business & Life is a New York Times best-selle

Stephen Heidari-Robinson on Surviving a Reorganization

Business reorganizations are a fact of life and they're going to become more frequent than ever. Stephen Heidari-Robinson joins us with some tips from the book he wrote with co-author Suzanne Heywood, ReOrg: How to Get it Right , on how to deal with a "reorg," the phases you should expect, and what

Stephen Denning on the Age of Agile

Stephen Denning , author of The Age of Agile , distinguishes between "operational agility" and "strategic agility." Operational agility is about improving products that already exist and already have a market. Strategic agility is about creating brand new markets for brand new products. While we sho

Stephen M. R. Covey on How to Build, Keep and Repair Trust

Stephen M.R. Covey is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which, under his stewardship, became the largest leadership development company in the world. A Harvard MBA, he joined Covey Leadership Center as a Client Developer and later became National Sales Manager and then President & CEO. Unde

Stephen M.R. Covey on Using Trust for a New Year of Success

In this week's You've Been Spotted segment, Kevin Lee asks participants from AMA's course Coaching and Counseling for Outstanding Job Performance "about their "Trust Resolution" for the new year. Listen to these participants share practices, tips and guidelines they've learned from the course.

Stephen Woessner on Profitable Podcasting

Podcast consumption has been on a steady uptick and isn't going anywhere. Hosting a podcast is a great form of publicity and business development for even the smallest business owners but getting started can be daunting. Stephen Woessner , author of Profitable Podcasting , published by AMACOM, is he

Stephen Wunker on Jobs to Be Done

Stephen Wunker says most companies are innovating the wrong way. They're making what their customers say they want. Instead they should be asking "why" their customers want those things and making a product the customer didn't even know the needed. Today on Edgewise Stephen joins us to give examples

Stephen Wunker on Capturing New Markets

Exxon is to kerosene as Nintendo Wii is to Atari. In his book Capturing New Markets , Stephen Wunker expounds on the premise that with every successful new product, platform or medium, comes an underrepresented audience to be tapped into. Wunker explicitly explains how to leverage innovation for mar

Steve Kerr on Performance Rewards Systems That Really Work

It’s one of the thorniest management problems around: dealing with unmotivated, low-performing employees. It’s easy to point the finger of blame at them. But in most companies, it’s the reward system, not the workforce, that’s causing poor attitudes and performance: many reward systems actually disc