Here’s a sign that you’ve arrived as an Analyst or an Analytics team: At the first sign of failure reported by the data, most people blame you (Analyst/Data). Wear it as a badge of honor! It means your analysis has identified insights that are big enough, important enough, that the recipients get instantly worried. Ideally, you live in a culture where good analysis identifying poor performance would be warmly welcomed as an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to change, and, for the bravest cultures, an opportunity to change leadership posture (or leaders). What's often a lot more common is to take the easy way out by sowing doubt, undertaking "rationalizations,"…
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