Posts by Peter Walzer

As we roll into 2017, I think most of us would agree that last year was a very different and yet illuminating year. With our recent Presidential Campaign circus, and the subsequent surprising election results, many of us  — living in the little worlds that we inevitably live in — have been struggling to understand…

In the Introduction of Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic’s 2015 book, Storytelling With Data, the first sub-heading sets the tone for her magnificent drill-down into the details of what it takes to actually do something useful with data: “Bad Graphs are Everywhere.”  From here, Ms. Knaflic takes us through several unique primers on the ascetics and design considerations of presenting…

It may seem like an odd question, but I am asking it anyway: Why do we model? And, by the way, what in the world am I talking about? The picture in this Post is of our beloved neighbor Ruby, and even though she is only six, she knows exactly what I am talking about.…

Come Land on My Planet I remember back in the late late moments of last century (yes, that would be the 1990’s), I worked at a Financial Services firm with a particularly unique and inspiring executive. I had left my job at a large consulting firm to try and stay off airplanes for a while,…