Do you play to win or play to not lose as a leader?
How a story about cows & a cattle grid can teach us the benefits of ‘playing to win’ not just ‘playing not to lose’ as leaders.
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September 14, 2022
Engaging your business with Data Literacy, how to avoid boredom
How do you avoid the boredom trap for your data literacy programme? Guest blogger Tristan Mobbs shares 3 tips for better relevance & interest
How are Softer Skills still relevant for Data Leaders? Part 5: Analytics
Exploring how softer skills are still relevant for Data Leaders, even at the Analytics stage of work. How can such people skills help them?
Leadership lessons from ex-President Barak Obama
Leadership lessons from President Barak Obama. Relevant insights for data & analytics leaders gleaned from reading memoirs “A Promised Land”.
Are you delivering just Analytics or the Actionable Insight needed?
What is insight and how is it different from just the results of your analysis? Tony Boobier muses on the need for actionable insights today.
How to run a one day Analytics Hackathon that works for your analysts
How to run a successful Analytics Hackathon in one day that works for analysts not just data scientists. Learning from this one within Gousto
Why being passionate about your work can be a mistake
The danger of being passionate about your work tipping over from being a positive motivation into obsession & a defensive resistance to change
Is ‘being corporate’ preventing you from seeing with fresh eyes?
Are you blinded to fresh thinking by ‘being corporate’? Guest blogger Tony Boobier explores how this type of cultural conditioning hampers us
Sharing our readers’ progress with data literacy campaigns
Sharing results from our 2021 survey on data literacy campaigns. Discover how other data leaders are approaching this challenge & using what.
5 common mistakes made by analysts and how to avoid them in future
Top 5 common mistakes made by analysts and how to avoid them. Advice from the hands-on analytics leadership experience of Andy Sutton.
Find the best of Psychometrics to help you as a leader or a coach
Book review of “Psychometrics in Coaching” edited by Prof J Passmore. Summarising the 17 tools reviewed and other best practice provided here
Why our approach to Artificial Intelligence needs a reboot
Book review of the vital “Rebooting AI” by Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis. Why & how we need to change our approach to Artificial Intelligence.