Metadata
- Author: Katie Bauer
- Full Title:: Choosing Your Battles
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Team Vision And Mission,
- URL:: https://wrongbutuseful.substack.com/p/choosing-your-battles?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
- Finished date:: 2024-03-03
Highlights
we believe we have the best vantage point in the entire organization to understand what’s really going on [1|1] (View Highlight)
Unfortunately, these cross-domain glimpses are not always great data (View Highlight)
The end result is a disorienting array of conflicting viewpoints, and before we know it, we’re staring into a dizzying kaleidoscope that only we can see. (View Highlight)
I’ve never met a data professional who felt like they didn’t have enough to do (View Highlight)
I’ve also never met a data professional who didn’t also create problems for themselves by having different [2|2] standards than the people they work with. (View Highlight)
Proactivity and an ownership mindset are crucial traits for anyone who works in data, but so is an awareness of the limits of your time, energy and organizational credibility (View Highlight)
It’s hard for an executive to be sympathetic to a data team manager who says the team is too bogged down with short term tasks to do “higher leverage” work. They likely hear the same thing all the time from leaders and departments all across the company, and there’s a good chance they have no idea what “higher leverage” data work would even mean (View Highlight)
Data work brings you into contact with all sorts of people and problems, and if you’re not careful, you can easily find yourself in a situation where you’re pulled into so many of those problems that you can’t contribute meaningfully to any of them. You have limited time and energy—don’t waste it on battles that aren’t worth fighting. (View Highlight)