Andy Kriebel is my favorite go-to person on all matters related to Tableau and Dataviz. Andy was the first to create a YouTube channel on Tableau. His subscriber base has surpassed 61,000, and his 750+ videos have 7.5 million views and counting. Andy and Eva Murray are the co-authors of the book #Makeover Monday. In this conversation, our topics range from writing to his five daily habits and why asking for a dashboard can be problematic.
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The Best Book On Deming I’ve Ever Read
I have my theories on why W. Edwards Deming is not a household name in all business circles. Many view him as the ‘quality’ guy who impacted Japanese manufacturing after the Second World War. That view is limiting, as Deming’s management mindset had four central tenets: pragmatism, the law of variation, human psychology, and systems thinking. These are Deming’s pillars of thought, explained so clearly in a new book by John Willis.
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Advice for the Leader’s Bookshelf
I love The Leader’s Bookshelf. It’s the perfect book for voracious readers. Near the end of the book, my favorite chapter is Reading and Leading, where the author offers priceless advice.
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Fiction’s Newest Hero is a Forensic Accountant
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, technology activist, and journalist. He has written many books, most recently The Bezzle, a follow-up to Red Team Blues, which are the two books we’ll discuss in this episode. These titles begin a series featuring the fictional forensic accountant Martin Hench. Hench is self-employed, loves being on the red team, and rakes in 25% of the assets he can recover. While entertaining, Cory’s books are deeply thought-provoking.
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What Does the Founder of FP&A Trends Read?
I am a regular reader of FP&A Trends, and I’m just as much of a fan of that organization’s founder and CEO, Larysa Melnychuk. Would you like to know what she’s reading?
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The Harvey Firestone Story
Alfred Sloan’s My Years with General Motors was an immediate success and is considered one of the best management books written by CEOs of his era. Before his book, we’d probably have to go back to Henry Ford’s autobiography to find a management book of this popularity. I now believe Harvey Firestone’s book from 1926 is as good, if not better than Ford’s and Sloan’s. The title is Men and Rubber, a republished book by Latticework Publishing.
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Options to Reading Peter Drucker
Every financial leader should read Drucker. But many will not because you don’t read Drucker, you study his writings carefully. You don’t read him fast, you go slowly taking notes. Reading Drucker requires work, but the reward is worth the effort.
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What is Active Reading?
Mortimer Adler teaches that all reading is active reading. That is, he says there is no such thing as passive reading. He then explains that active reading is like being a catcher in a baseball game.
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Upcoming Book Releases
I like finding obscure business books, biographies, and well-written historical pieces that read like narratives. I’m also constantly watching upcoming releases that fit these criteria. The list below is in order of release date.
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The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson grew up in an impoverished area of East London where he could hold his life’s belongings in both arms. About three years after graduating from the London School of Economics, Citibank made him a millionaire at a very young age. While Gary defied the odds of becoming a successful trader at Citibank, he explains why wealth did not bring him happiness and why he was eager to leave the firm that made him rich.
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