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Who this deck is for
We – as management practitioners – love
data. We all love to back our proposals
with concrete data. Problem is: concrete
data is not always available, and in some
instances, plain impossible to collect.
Though anyone working with numbers will
benefit from this deck, it will especially add
value to
Marketers, whose action need to be based on
research and analysis
HR people, whose recommendations must be
backed by data
Senior managers and Accountants, who love figures
Most of us can answer that
question, but very few of us
could do it in an
“academically sound” manner
But this guy – Steven D. Levitt, professor
of Economics at Harvard Business School
– did just that in his ground-breaking book
Freakonomics.
UNPLEASANTNESS
Likelihood of random
violence and the lost
opportunity of having a
stable family life
None Many
No institution
provides these skills
Skills provided by
many institutions
Uncountable Negligible
Significantly greater Significantly less
It is that
“making your ratio zero:something or something:infinity”
approach which makes his assertions concrete. The approach
is useful because although we cannot always find the data for
both sides of the equation, we can almost always find one
side. This deck is dedicated to highlighting the fact that if you
look enough and think enough, you can talk concrete data
even when all or part of the equation is missing.
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