166 Rishad Tobaccowala You Need Spreadsheets AND Stories

Why is a mathematician, MBA, and Marketing Executive writing a book about the soul of business? For many reasons. But one reason in particular is that numbers are backwards looking, and if someone wants to be innovative, they need to look into the future. Innovation is forward looking. Rishad Tobaccoawala, author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the age of data, realized that the secret to business success is merging spreadsheets and stories. Companies that do this create value. Companies that do one or the other, destroy value. Wells Fargo and Beoing were so numbers driven that they got caught up in scandals and destroyed shareholder value. WeWork was all story and no data. We talked about a lot of examples like this. And we talked about what we, as leaders, can do about it. Learn more about Rishad His Book on Amazon: His Website: Link to his linked Post: Davos searching for its' soul

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166 Rishad Tobaccowala You Need Spreadsheets AND Stories is an episode from Helping Sells Radio by ServiceRocket Media.

This episode is 48:54 long.

This episode was published on Jan 28, 2020.

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