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

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

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 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 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

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

Steve Cone on Successful Marketing Through a Recession

With more than 35 years at the top of the marketing profession,   Steve Cone   has led campaigns for many companies including Citigroup, American Express, Fidelity, Apple, and United Airlines, as well as presidential campaigns for both major parties.

Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal on Optimizing Your Consciousness

Extasis is an ancient Greek word that refers to non-ordinary states of consciousness. While not all methods of achieving extasis are work friendly, having access to higher thought processes to solve problems creatively is a skill any employer would be happy to encourage. Steven Kotler and Jamie Whea

Steven Pressfield on Doing the Work

How many brilliant projects have you begun in your mind? In this episode of Edgewise, author Steven Pressfield discusses his latest book, Do the Work, which is geared to be a mental boot camp that kick starts artists and entrepreneurs out of their heads and into action. He takes on public enemy #1,