Those of you that know your maths know that an S-Curve can have an exponential portion to its curve but it can’t BE an exponential curve. However, I recently came across a diagram showing a series of S-curves overlaying an exponential curve which to me portrayed something very different to seeing either in isolation. It
There are data miners and then there is data mindset. The former are the people and/or their tools that do the digging through the numbers. The latter is about a whole lot more. Last week I blogged about how to help people believe the numbers. This week I am going a big step further talking about
Decisions are all about emotion, however, numbers are so very important. At the end of the day if the bank balance is zero, no amount of emotion is going to change that. When it comes to numbers and decision making there are essentially three positions people take. Believers These people believe numbers enhance decisions. In
One of the most soul-destroying events that can happen to a company is for a bean counter to be appointed as CEO with a vision that involves cost cutting and not much else. While I am one of the first to hold true to “In God we trust, all others bring data”, I have seen
A strategy is of itself a hypothesis. Something that is proved true or false over time. For more on this, read one of my most popular blogs here: A strategy is but a hypothesis. In proving your hypothesis, you eventually find out if you are spending on a failed strategy or if you are investing