Your firm’s financial statements harbor a million-and-one stories waiting to be told, but it’s the way you ultimately tell a story that makes it matter. Mick Holly and Andre Gien have developed an innovative approach for unlocking the engaging drama unfolding within your firm’s financial statements.
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Behind “The Story”
“Almost two-thirds of your workforce are not in lock step with what your firm is trying to accomplish because they are not really engaged. And to achieve that extra level of engagement, you have to have a clarion call to action. You to have an extra level of clarity, and I was trying to find a methodology to bring that to life.” — Mick Holly
“What I saw was that there was a void in the business as far as understanding how something would really impact the goal of adding value went. There was intuition, but with very little evidence — and sometimes it was the opposite. So from my perspective, the question became, ‘How do we marry the intuitive side and the evidence side?’ Financial statements are a great mechanism for doing that, and when you bring these sides together, you have a powerful story.” — Andre Gien
Telling Their Own Story
“In our story, we have three characters: Vanity, Sanity, and King. They are depicted in the adage ‘Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, and cash is king.’ And this is really a metaphor for how the income statement, the balance sheet, and statement of cash flows integrate with each other.” — Mick Holly
Book Reference
The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
