The Importance of Getting Inside Your Head

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Tim Helps: I'm always more successful as an analyst when I actually understand what's going on. If somebody hasn't told me a story that makes me think it's worth being interested in, those are the people where I'll go try to figure out how to go above and beyond. When you get someone that's super excited, like what you're talking about him, and then they become your evangelist, he says. "It can make space for the good work that you do inside the organization"

This topic was such a big deal that we managed to have no guests, and yet we had five people on the mic! Why? Because this episode doubles as a marker of a shift in the show itself. Beyond that, though, we had a lively discussion about how every business stakeholder professes to being committed to being data driven. That should make every stakeholder super easy to work with, right? And, yet, analysts often find themselves struggling to get on the same page with their counterparts due to the realities of the data: what it can and can't do and how it is most effectively worked with. Not a small topic! There were even pop quizzes (feel free to let us know how you'd score the answers)! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.