Visual Representations

In today's world we get inundated with numbers and facts that often we lose perspective. One way to get the perspective back is to be able to visualize information. Edward Tufte uses some great visualization techniques to help us make sense of information.

Came across another blog here that shows a perspective of the earth in terms of time and size.

How about a cool representation of the US Federal Budget?

Who Said Elephants Can't Dance

This is a fascinating book by Lou Gerstner, former CEO of IBM on how he transformed the organization. In the early 90s, most people gave up on it. Seeing how a 'non-technical' person could take the reigns and transform a technical organization provides us some valuable lessons.