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[I have a bad cold so I’m going to keep this really short but I had to talk a bit about this book.] Numbersense by Kaiser Fung is a really great book. I had to check a few times but the title is one word. The stories he tells about numbers and analysis are riveting. I…
(Okay, this picture has nothing to do with today’s topic – it’s a copout picture. I’m still trying to set up this website and I am encountering a few problems due to learning to use this tool. And maybe I am being a little too ambitious on what I want to accomplish. Besides, sourcing pictures for…
[divider]I once had 150+ projects…[/divider] When I joined this team, they had a lot of project work. At the time, they were mostly in the $10K range, with very few in the $1 million range. All project reporting and analysis were done by spreadsheets. So if you had 150 projects, you had 150 spreadsheets. One…
Recently I read an article by McKinsey about a college professor and former Medtronic CEO saying the current form of capitalism is detrimental not just to communities and employees, but also to shareholders. While everybody decry about the short termism of companies, he also says managing companies solely for shareholders is bad for…
Don’t Present a Large Block of Numbers When I first started working at a particular company ages ago, I encountered a situation where I had to step in and make a presentation to management. The girl who normally presented the review had been unexpectedly called out. Her presentation was a spreadsheet with lots of…
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