Business books come in three types: Great, bad, and awful. Here are my favorites. The Goal by Eli Goldratt: Classic novel about the theory of constraints. I didn’t understand my job until I read this book. Getting Things Done by David Allen: Read this book if you want to complete projects that have been lingering [...]

This year for Christmas I received a fantastic book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte. It reviews best practices for charts, graphs, and tables that opened my eyes to how data should be presented.  In it he discusses how to improve your data-ink ratio, eliminate chart junk, and tell how honest a [...]