Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You

(John Wiley & Sons) When presenting numbers, presenters often focus on whether their information is correct, and fail to look at whether it is comprehensible or meaningful to an audience. Written in a conversational style, this book treats the act of presenting numbers, or “quantation,” as a communication skill that anyone can learn, much like writing or speaking. Bolten spent 30 years in Silicon Valley and now runs his own consulting practice, Lucidity.