Are you a hero or a villain as a leader during cutbacks?
Are you a hero or a villain in your organisation due to your response to cost cutting challenges? Which should you be? What is needed now?
Tag: prioritisation
March 27, 2023
How data leaders can cut costs without reducing value
Sharing my experience of how data leaders can cut costs without reducing value, even during a recession, because we have been here before.
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”.
How are Softer Skills still relevant for Data Leaders? Part 2: Planning
What can data leaders learn from the softer skills needed by analysts? Part 2 of our series for data leaders looks at planning.
Hanne’s story: How my stroke taught me to get better not back to my old normal
Hanne Sorteberg shares her story. How suffering a stroke changed her life forever & taught her how to get better, not back to her old normal.
Why you need the 4 Disciplines of Execution in Analytics
Book Review of “The 4 disciplines of execution” and why this book can help Analytics leaders improve their exection as teams, delivering a consistent ROI.
Team Mission: a leader’s experience of why you need one
Continuing our theme of leaders’ lessons learnt from experience, lets turn to having a team mission. In this post our regular guest blogger, Tony Boobier, […]
Role Definition Workshops, a simple method to tune your team
Continuing our focus on designing your team, have you used role definition workshops? It’s not an approach that I’ve used before. But, I’m delighted to […]
Are you & your analysts protecting time for Deep Work?
As you continually improve how your team works, are you protecting time for “Deep Work”? If you haven’t come across that phrase, it was coined […]
Could you become more self-aware as a leader from coaching?
It’s been a busy week of client work (which is great!), but that has meant less time for this blog. So, to make up the […]
Is your customer insight career a spectacular display or in a box?
Whilst working in Amsterdam (not the venue to choose when remembering Guy Fawkes), I was reminded how insight analysts & leaders can shine brightly in […]