Do You Want a Friend as Your Boss?

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I don't think you necessarily need to like them. Like you can have bosses who are huge pains in the butt, but they push you and make you better. If it can be professional and cordial and constructive and if they can change your mind, that's also interesting too. Getting a sense of where limits of where they might want their role to go is an interesting place to prod for example.

You've got some solid experience under your belt, and you're starting to feel like you're ready to move into a data leadership role. What does that even mean? Shifting your keystrokes from SQL to slide decks? Maybe (but maybe not). Katie Bauer, Head of Data at GlossGenius, has held multiple data leadership roles over the course of her career, and she penned a thoughtful post on the various tactics she employed to find a role that is a good fit. She wrote the post so that she wouldn't have to keep repeating herself when data folks in her network reached out for advice. But that didn't stop this podcast from reaching out to record a lively discussion on the topic! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.