Evaluation and Value for Investment

Evaluation and Value for Investment

Unpacking Value for Investment jargon

Do I pass the granny test?

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Julian King
May 23, 2023
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A challenge I set myself in work and life is to communicate ideas in words anybody can understand. Somebody once called this the ‘granny test’. This doesn’t mean dumbing things down - my grandmothers were sharp as tacks, but they weren’t trained in evaluation and could have felt excluded by the jargon that sometimes enters our work.

Unfortunately, I don…

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