Every office has that one spreadsheet. The one that’s been patched, copied, renamed, and passed around like an heirloom. Somewhere inside it, a formula has gone rogue. Totals don’t match. The pivot table won’t refresh. Charts refuse to update. And yet — every Monday morning, someone fixes it again. If Excel could talk, it would probably sigh. Because the truth is: Excel isn’t failing us — we’re failing Excel . 1️⃣ The Real Problem Isn’t the Tool Most professionals learn Excel

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Coherence is what makes the difference between numbers leaders hear — and stories leaders act on. The Problem With Jumbled Stories Picture this. You’re in a boardroom and the analyst begins: “Profits are down 20%.” “Turnover has risen to 25%.” “Customer satisfaction is 65%.” All true. But with no links, the room is confused. What’s driving what? What do we do next? It’s like hearing The Tortoise and the Hare  out of order: First the hare naps, then the race begins, and finall

If everything is important, nothing is remembered. A client once presented a 60-slide deck to their leadership team. It had everything: regression outputs, pivot tables, exploratory charts. By slide 20, attention was already fading. By slide 40, people were checking emails. We reframed the story into just three points: Sales had dropped 20% in the last quarter . Repeat customers had fallen by 50% year-on-year . If nothing changed, projected losses would hit $5 million  in the

Data doesn’t change minds. Stories do. We live in a world overflowing with data. Dashboards, reports, AI models — they’re everywhere. Organizations invest millions collecting and analyzing information, hoping it will lead to better decisions. Yet ask business leaders what keeps them up at night, and many will say the same thing: “We have the insights, but they don’t translate into action.” This is what I call the last mile of analytics . You can run the race, but if you stumb