{"id":5,"date":"2011-07-11T01:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T01:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2011-11-01T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T21:55:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"about."},"content":{"rendered":"

Numbers, numbers, numbers.<\/p>\n

Communicating quantitative insight can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the numbers.\u00a0 Great quantitative writers like Steven Strogatz<\/a>, Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a> and John Allen Paulos<\/a> use approachable, clean writing make mathematical insight resonate.\u00a0 They avoid the trap of intimidating readers with jargon and unwieldy arguments.<\/p>\n

I have worked with many powerful management tools critical for business decision-making, yet rarely are the tools presented in such a manner. \u00a0 Why isn’t good writing the dominant approach used in sharing quantitative insight in the business world?<\/p>\n

“There will be numbers.”<\/p>\n

This website uses short writings to detail management tools, business analysis techniques and reference materials that are potentially useful to all readers. \u00a0 While the material is unapologetically quantitative, the clean delivery of material should in theory free up time and energy for readers to work with the tools themselves.<\/p>\n

And that’s the fun part.<\/p>\n

>> Brian Alward<\/p>\n

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biography.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Brian Alward is a recent MBA graduate from the Johnson School at Cornell University.\u00a0 Squarely focused on the emerging field of sustainability within business, Brian explored this area through the lens of finance and entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Prior to attending Cornell, Brian worked with some very interesting people<\/a>\u00a0and developed a passion for numbers while writing about investment strategies and climbing mountains of various heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Numbers, numbers, numbers. Communicating quantitative insight can fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the numbers.\u00a0 Great quantitative writers like Steven Strogatz, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and John Allen Paulos use approachable, clean writing make mathematical insight resonate.\u00a0 They avoid the trap of intimidating readers with jargon and unwieldy arguments. I have worked with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brianalward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}