Chapter Twelve

Design Your Numbers as Visuals

Case Studies: Mark Hanna • Jerry Maguire • Hans Rosling • Patrick Spence, Sonos • Mitesh Dhruv, RingCentral • Bill Colston, Sestina Bio • Ford Tamer, Inphi

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.1

Mark Hanna

▪ The Vital Importance of Numbers ▪

What Mark Hanna, once the chair of Republican National Committee, said about politics can also be said of business. Money and the numbers that track the money are the life force and stock-in-trade of every company. The keepers of that valuable stock are the financial people who tally, sort, analyze, dissect, report, and present results.

Every person who works in finance is familiar ...

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