Some readers may be curious about the author. Here is a short story about me:
Telling a story with numbers means learning what the numbers say and then summarizing that story using the numbers as examples. Some call that Financial Planning and Analysis [FP&A]. Regardless, I have told stories with numbers in various arenas during my entire professional career. Most good business stories have two basic parts: the Mission of the Enterprise; and, the projected and/or actual financial results.
I read the story of Economics at Whittier College and then in graduate school at LSE [London School of Economics] in England where I took an M. Sc. [Econ] in 1966. I studied Russia during the Cold War at LSE to understand the challenge presented to Capitalism by the story of Socialism. This blog presenst my observations of the continuing threats to the National Security of the United States posed by Russian tyrannies and our domestic response to those threats.
My first significant
job was an F P & A analyst at a publicly traded chemical process manufacturing
company in Los Angeles. I wrote the stories of the plans and then analyzed the financial
results for hundreds of operating plans. I wrote the plans in longhand with an
adding machine and summarized the stories of performance for the Board and
Corporate management. Eventually I used a variety of software programs to write
the stories of how the results compared to the plans.
From there I wrote my
book ‘HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN’, which explained financial story telling
for entrepreneurs. My book has helped thousands of entrepreneurs for more than
30 years and is now in its 14th Edition. I also created and managed
a Business Plan Mentoring consultancy where I helped several entrepreneurs tell
better stories.
As Professor of
Economics at City College of San Francisco [CCSF] I taught Economic stories to
college students for 23 years until retiring in 2023. I wrote a textbook
[MACROECONOMIC ESSENTIALS, 2020] for my students to see the story we discussed
in class.
And, I changed the
story of Economics to include the impact on real people of economic decisions
and published the new story here [www.miepa.net].
My family has some history in Amercia: 400 Years of Stories from My American Family: Includes some historically notable family stories Kindle Edition,
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