Comments on: Quote: Numbers don’t lead http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/ Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alexander http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210576 Alexander Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:50:08 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210576 Robert: Our culture has a love/hate relationship with numbers. Only without the "love" part :o) Robert: Our culture has a love/hate relationship with numbers. Only without the “love” part :o)

]]> By: Robert McPhillips http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210430 Robert McPhillips Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:13:05 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210430 It sounds so zen-like and profound doesn't it? Recently I was helping my daughter with her numeracy homework. Like many people, she struggled and found numbers frightening. I tried to help her see that numbers are just another way of describing the world. An alternative language. I wish I could have expressed it as clearly as this. It sounds so zen-like and profound doesn’t it?

Recently I was helping my daughter with her numeracy homework. Like many people, she struggled and found numbers frightening. I tried to help her see that numbers are just another way of describing the world. An alternative language.

I wish I could have expressed it as clearly as this.

]]> By: Alexander http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210159 Alexander Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:27:18 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210159 Exactly! So much of what goes on in a company is beyond numbers - it will forever resist being reduced to cells in a spreadsheet. Exactly! So much of what goes on in a company is beyond numbers – it will forever resist being reduced to cells in a spreadsheet.

]]> By: Craig Harper http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210155 Craig Harper Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:55:07 +0000 http://positivesharing.com/2008/01/quote-numbers-dont-lead/#comment-210155 Businesses are made up of human beings that are complex emotional beings. Numbers are simply a result of the relationship between all of the human beings within any business. Humans lead. Numbers follow. I like it too. Businesses are made up of human beings that are complex emotional beings. Numbers are simply a result of the relationship between all of the human beings within any business. Humans lead. Numbers follow. I like it too.

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