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Can we really trust spreadsheet numbers? Are spreadsheet-based reports the eye in your mud, or the mud in your eye? Do the numbers really help you to make sense of a complex situation, or do they cloud the issues by muddying the waters even more? Picture credit: Annie in Bezier I would be really interested to know how many organizations practise “safe downsizing” – and how many still rush headlong into an uncertain future. Continue reading article » Picture credit: icyjumbo People readily talk about wisdom, as a natural successor to knowledge, in a logical progression beginning with data and information. Many years ago T.E. Lawrence [of Arabia] famously wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom but I must have missed the prequel volume: The Seven Pillars of Data so, I speculated, what would they be? Continue reading article » some advice for those who wish to be expert 
Somebody asked me how they might fulfil their ambition of becoming an expert. My advice was straightforward: being an expert in something is not always enough. If you have real ambition you need to be holding a handful of aces, not just one or two. Continue reading article » |
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