CFOs Beware: Problems with Financial Modeling Through my work I have dealt with thousands of Excel, and for those that remember Lotus, financial models and I have to say that most of them are bad. I would like to summarize five of my least favorite things about the “bad” models I have had the unfortunate
True professionals don’t fear amateurs Professional farmers don’t begrudge the backyard gardener his tomato harvest. That’s silly. And talented mechanics certainly don’t mind the antics of the Car Talk guys (or their listeners). Sooner or later, if you need a real mechanic, you’ll find one, and if you don’t, well, that’s fine too. A few
Ashoka event to recruit new ASNs & Ashoka Fellow Advisory Board volunteers Objective An event that introduces CEOs and executives to Ashoka and Social Entrepreneurship, with the objective of recruiting them to Join as Ashoka ASNs or to volunteer to serve on Ashoka fellow Advisory Boards. Ashoka Fellow Advisory Boards is a concept we have
The Leaders We Need We need leaders today that will take risks, invent new ways of doing things and give people room to grow, succeed and even fail once or twice. We need leaders today that know that value of money, but don’t value money over people. People valued will produce treasures unimagined. Stop valuing
Eyes and Ears That Aren’t Your Own Posted on October 3, 2012 1 Eyes, ears, and listening with curiosity: these are some key ingredients that business coaches bring to their clients. It may sound easy but it’s not. Coaching requires patience, highly attuned listening skills, and an ability to ask thought provoking questions that help
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Avoiding the false proxy trap Sometimes, we can’t measure what we need, so we invent a proxy, something that’s much easier to measure and stands in as an approximation. TV advertisers, for example, could never tell which viewers would be impacted by an ad, so instead, they measured how many people saw it. Or a
11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read by John Coleman | 12:00 PM October 11, 2012 Comments (211) Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. One of the most common