Do you believe in doing the numbers before you form an opinion and take decisions about matters wherever monetary considerations are involved? I feel most of us do – some may do back of the envelope workings, while few prefer digging deeper. I fall in the later part and don’t mind firing up MS Excel and let the numbers help me arrive at an opinion. Then, armed with an “objective opinion”, I procced with “decision making”. Arguably, subjectivity cannot be totally ruled out of any decision, though once you have numbers on your side, your confidence levels about the decision you have taken get a boost. Or let’s simply say – you feel good about the decisions you have taken as numbers driven opinion gives you a good shot at arguing your case, especially if your decisions don’t seem getting the desired results. That’s what this blog is all about. Sharing how numbers lead me to “opinions” and then to “decisions”. A word of caution – don’t take my word to for the sake of it: though I will be...