The fundamental premise is that people have talents and they have skills. Talents cannot really be you can get somea to a marginal level of capability. But talents are kind of innate. And so the trick with a team is to different people have different talents, talents they're going to be more interested in than others. You should spend your time helping them foster and grow and strengthen their talents. The key there is, are they even approaching that concept in any of systematic way? Because that just reveals, again, how good o an analyst are?You haven't even thought through the problem?"
Analytics is hard (so they say... but we're not going to open THAT can of worms). Do you know what's harder? Managing analysts! I mean, they're always asking, “Why?” Sometimes, they even ask it five times! They can wind up, you know, analyzing whatever you're asking them to do! On this episode, special guest Moe Kiss (you may know her as a co-host of this podcast) joined Michael and Tim to dig into the ins and outs of the analyst/manager relationship. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.