166 Rishad Tobaccowala You Need Spreadsheets AND Stories Helping Sells Radio

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: https://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Soul-Business-Staying-Human/dp/1400210542 His Website: https://rishadtobaccowala.com/ Link to his linked Post: Davos searching for its’ soul https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rishadtobaccowala_activity-6625056999962927106-19oE

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