Product Management - How to Reduce the Amount of Time Spent in Reactive Positions

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i feel like i hear time and time again, ik, that all sounds well and good but i've been told, i need to produce this. And it seems like that's thea. And it can't be. We'll just work harder because that fernetic pace will just fill whatever time you you give it. So i think that that is this piece of saying, like, aggressively defended. Maybe you can only defend five % of your time to start, but make that five% really valuable. Start pushing to try to effect that shift"

If you're like most data workers, you probably spend a little bit of time reacting to and servicing data requests, a bit more time on some larger analysis projects, and then you've got a big pile of free time where you're wondering what else you should be doing. Oh. No? You're absolutely drowning in work and questioning whether you're actually providing value? Yeah. That's actually much more common. We were just kidding with that opener. The great news, though, is that Emilie Schario joined us to talk about different tactics (strategies?) for finding the capacity to do more and better work, regardless of your level in your organization. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.