By Hiran de Silva Every seasoned leader occasionally performs a subtle experiment to understand how people really behave. One chairman I once worked for sent an all...
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The Signpost Problem: Why Social-Media Metrics Mislead Excel Users—and What Really Matters
By Hiran de Silva Signposts are supposed to guide travellers. But what if the signpost is beautiful, polished, persuasive… yet pointing entirely the wrong way? Imagine...
By Hiran de Silva And Why Is Nobody Allowed to Ask That Question? In any field, teaching is supposed to mean something.You choose a level.You choose a scenario.You...
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The Hidden Game in Excel: Why You’ve Been Taught the Wrong Thing—And Why That’s the Best News You’ll Ever Hear
By Hiran de Silva There is something almost comical—if it weren’t so damaging—about the Excel education industry today. Scroll through YouTube. Sign up for a...
By Hiran de Silva Most Excel teaching follows a predictable pattern. Here’s a button.Here’s a checkbox.Here’s a formula.Press this, tick that, watch what happens. It’s a...
By Hiran de Silva Good evening everyone.Today I want to ask a question that sounds simple, but might change the way you see Excel forever. What is Basic Excel, and what...
By Hiran de Silva For more than two decades, a falsehood has been repeated across boardrooms, sales presentations, and webinars: “You can’t consolidate bottom-up with...
By Hiran de Silva For too long, Excel has been misunderstood. ERP vendors call it Excel Hell.Cloud startups promise to replace it.Even some Excel influencers quietly...
By Hiran de Silva This presentation demonstrates that the $100-billion industry which has emerged over the past two decades — claiming to replace Excel — is, in fact...
By Hiran de Silva Here is some research done by ChatGPT in November 2025. It’s interesting how the rhetoric has moved in the past few years – from ‘get...