“Never forget these 3 things: (1.) Not all facts are helpful. (2.) You lose sight of the big picture when you get too close. (3.) It’s easy to lie in the language of numbers because people think numbers never lie.”
“Figures lie and liars figure.”
- Dick Heston (1933 – 2002)
In these data-and-analytics-driven times, let’s follow the advice of two of the wisest men of my lifetime.
Even as we zoom in, let’s keep the big picture in sight. It’s a longer game than we think, and how we finish matters.
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