Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan
2 responses to “Comrade Excel and the Glorious Five Year Plan”
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Way too many people put too much faith in spreadsheets. They still create value, but the value is in the process, not the result. Spreadsheets reflect tactical planning, not strategic thinking; we must be willing to to create new plans, tactics and spreadsheets as strategies evolve.
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“…certainty in what will happen and the plan to meet it are essential fictions of today’s CEO.”
Find: CEO.
Replace with: Manager.It frustrates me that making the wildly unpredicatble seem certain is a quality that businesses praise and reward – and when I hear that banks like HBOS have put sales people in charge of managing financial risk, my heart sinks as I suspect this is a ‘competency’ virulent in business. I can see the job description now…
“Can you make the wildly unpredictable seem certain? Can you turn risk in to revenue? If you can answer yes to questions then a career at HBOS could be for YOU!”
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