Metadata
- Author: Katie Bauer
- Full Title:: Don’t Do It for the Glory
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: DĂ©jame Sin Trabajo, Por Favor,
- URL:: https://wrongbutuseful.substack.com/p/dont-do-it-for-the-glory
- Finished date:: 2023-05-29
Highlights
I was driven by spite, so irritated by a string of incompetent managers that I figured I should try it because even if I was a bad manager, I’d still be better than them (View Highlight)
Metadata
- Author: Katie Bauer
- Full Title:: Don’t Do It for the Glory
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Culture, Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas, Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas,
- URL:: https://wrongbutuseful.substack.com/p/dont-do-it-for-the-glory?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
- Finished date:: 2024-03-03
Highlights
most of the folks you work with at your company won’t understand how data teams work, nor do they want or need to. Unless they used to be an analyst themselves, they’ll think of your team’s job primarily as writing SQL queries, or more generally, as making data appear as fast as possible (View Highlight)
grows faster than the data team. Once you educate one stakeholder, there will always be someone else new and uninformed to take their place. Leading a data team means you will constantly repeat yourself. (View Highlight)
they won’t know where you yourself fit in. If the most senior data person doesn’t report into the CEO, where should they sit? Marketing, product, the CTO, the CFO? No one can agree on this, not even the data community itself, and your company will probably not make this decision in an especially principled way (View Highlight)
They’ll forget to invite you to conversations you should have been in, or they’ll decide that involving you and your team would be too much friction when they need to move as fast as they do. (View Highlight)
You will feel left out. You will feel undermined. You will feel like your stakeholders are being reckless and shortsighted (View Highlight)
it won’t simply be a rough patch you need to push through—it will happen over and over again (View Highlight)
success doesn’t always come in the form you want or look like you expect it to (View Highlight)
The surest way to feel like you’re failing is fixate on the short term. Data work rarely has a clear end point (View Highlight)