Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You - Hardcover

Bolten, Randall

 
9781118172575: Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1118172574 ISBN 13: 9781118172575
Verlag: Wiley, 2012

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Learn how to communicate better with numbers
 
Whether you are distributing a report or giving a presentation, you have a lot of numbers to present and only a few minutes to get your point across. Your audience is busy and has a short attention span. Don't let an amateur presentation bog you down, confuse your audience, and damage your credibility. Instead, learn how to present numerical information effectively--in the same way you learned how to speak or write. With Painting with Numbers, you'll discover how to present numbers clearly and effectively so your ideas and your presentation shine.
* Use the Arabic numeral system to your advantage master the use of layout and visual effects to communicate powerfully
* Understand how audiences process your information and how that affects your "personal brand image"
* Learn how to be perceived as a professional who truly understands the business concepts and issues underlying your numbers
* Use software tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, and graphs, efficiently and to drive home your point
 
Author Randall Bolten shares his decades of experience as a senior finance executive distilling complicated information into clear presentations, to help you make your numerical information more comprehensible, meaningful, and accessible. Painting with Numbers is brimming with hands-on advice, techniques, tools, rules, and guidelines for producing clear, attractive, and effective quantation (the word the author has coined for the skill of presenting numbers).

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

RANDALL BOLTEN operates a consulting practice focused on financial management and information presentation. He is a seasoned and accomplished finance executive, with thirty years of experience in high-growth and high-potential Silicon Valley companies. His professional passion is presenting information that can enable managers, investors, and the general public to make real sense of complicated situations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.

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You have a lot of numbers to report or present, and your readers or listeners will give you only a few minutes to get your point across. Presenting numerical information coherently is a communication skill, and like any other communication skill, how well you do this has a dramatic effect on your audience's understanding of your narrative. Moreover, they will not distinguish between you and the information you are providing when forming conclusions about your professional and personal credibility. With Painting with Numbers, you'll discover how to present numbers clearly and effectively so your ideas and your presentation resonate with your audience. This is a skill that can be learned.
 
During his nearly twenty years as a CFO in Silicon Valley, author Randall Bolten learned that small changes in the way numbers were presented made a huge difference in how well they were understood. In Painting with Numbers, you'll learn the art of quantation: the act of presenting numbers articulately for the purpose of informing an audience. Misunderstood reports can lead to mass confusion, and even costly errors. Bolten shows you how to package your material into the "right" presentation to deliver an outstanding performance, every time.
 
Featuring a wide range of quantation examples, Painting with Numbers covers what you need to know to present numbers so that people can understand them quickly and get the maximum meaning from them. This accessible reference will teach you to:
* Use the Arabic numeral system to your advantage
* Master the layout to convey your information most effectively
* Use visual effects to enhance your reports
* Use software tools, including Excel and PowerPoint, efficiently to drive home your point
* Make graphs comprehensible and meaningful to your audience
* Interact with your audience as a peer
* Maximize the impact of the numbers in your oral presentations
* Add even more meaning to your quantation by combining ratios and other metrics with the basic report information
* Get the words right, and not just the numbers
* Create useful and meaningful management reports
* See how quantation can clarify public policy issues
* Appreciate the role quantation plays in your daily life
 
Painting with Numbers will show you how to communicate financials and tell your story in a way that is clear, comprehensible, concise, elegant, and, most of all, effective.

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Praise for Painting with Numbers
 
"In today's information age, the challenge facing public company executives to ensure their messages are heard by customers and investors has never been more poignant. Painting with Numbers lays out a practical guide to helping business leaders cut through all the noise and communicate crisply and clearly with the audiences that matter."
 
-Duncan Niederauer, CEO, NYSE Euronext
 
"Randall's book teaches what I have long believed-a key objective of finance is to provide timely, accurate, and understandable information that leads to better decisions. This is a challenge for organizations of all sizes-from very early-stage ventures to large public companies."
 
-Eric Keller, Chief Operating Officer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
 
"This is a book that badly needed to be written, so it's about time! I hope that it's read by not just financial people, but by entrepreneurs and C-suite executives as well. The book is both intellectually challenging and downright practical, and will shape the thinking of entrepreneurs and seasoned veterans who need to communicate numbers for business success."
 
-Harry Kellogg, Vice Chairman, Silicon Valley Bank
 
"Government policymakers need to do a much better job of communicating clearly with data, especially when it comes to our increasingly alarming federal fiscal situation. Painting with Numbers can help them do just that. Not only do I wish this book had been around when I was Budget Director, but I'm now prepared to drop my claim that my brother was adopted."
 
-Joshua Bolten, former White House Chief of Staff and Director, Office of Management and Budget
 
"I feel strongly that clearly and honestly presented data is essential to an informed electorate, and Randall made it possible for me to put that belief into practice. I'm delighted that a book like Painting with Numbers is available. I am confident that the lessons Randall Bolten sets forth in this book, a first of its kind, will have a hugely positive effect on the level of public debate and, thus, the quality of the choices we make in our public and private lives."
 
-From the Foreword by Dr. Tom Campbell, Dean, Chapman University School of Law; former Dean, U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business; five-term U.S. Congressman; Professor of Law, Stanford University; and PhD in economics (University of Chicago)

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Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1118172574
ISBN 13 
9781118172575
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
348
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