Connecting with purpose in your work as a data leader in business
How I connected with purpose & meaning in the work I did as a data leader, rather than drawing it from corporate values or virtue signalling.
Tag: leadership
January 27, 2023
What is your motivation as a leader? Why do you do what you do?
Why do you do what you do? Guest blogger, Tony Boobier, explores the question: What is your motivation as a data leader (and does it matter)?
Learning from Advent – reflections for data & analytics leaders
Reflections for data & analytics leaders inspired by the season of Advent. How can data leaders develop virtues that help them in their roles?
Is your actionable insight being limited by your communication skills?
Why language skills and words also matter when communicating actionable insights. Why data leaders need to master words as well as statistics
How Softer Skills are relevant for Data Leaders, Part 8: Visual Story
Step 8 in our softer skills model (Visual Story). How are softer skills in this area relevant for data leaders? How they can develop others…
How are Softer Skills still relevant for Data Leaders? Part 7: Sign-Off
3 tips for data or analytics leaders to achieve more sign-offs and commercial investment in their teams. A leaders version of Sign-Off skills
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.
Why Positively Energising Leadership is a call for virtues
Book review of “Positively Energising Leadership” by Prof Kim Cameron. Why virtues matter & how to behave in a way that positively energises.
What about your failures? How do you deal with them as a leader?
Consider your failures. What did you learn? How prepared are you for what could go wrong in future? A meditation on failure from Tony Boobier.
How are Softer Skills still relevant for Data Leaders? Part 6: Insight
Next in our series on the softer skills that help data leaders in their roles. Building on what works for analysts. Part 6: Insight Generation
Do you know the journey beyond expertise to intentional mastery?
Discovering what Mastery is and how you can developing beyond being a practitioner or even an expert, to become a master, with William Buist.
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”.