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Knowledge: the missing piece to understanding your business Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
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The most effective way to understand your business is the special balance between things like tribal knowledge and extracted knowledge, technical teams and business teams, confidence and skepticism.
Join Tim, Juan, and Loris Marini, CEO of Discovering Data, as they zoom in to find that balance and the humility it may take.
Key Takeaways
[00:11 - 03:10] Introduction & Toasts[03:13 - 05:32] What's the weirdest place you've ever misplaced your keys?[05:44 - 08:01] The most effective way to follow the business is to follow the money[08:02 - 10:35] Thinking about business literacy and how to learn that perspective[10:37 - 12:35] How do we make change happen?[12:37 - 13:39] Having genuine conversations with people[13:44 - 18:19] Coaching, psychological safety, and communicating better at work[18:20 - 22:10] The definition of creating knowledge within an organization[22:11 - 25:34] Knowledge, insight, and levels of knowledge distributed in your team[25:35 - 28:52] You've got to spend time and you have to have a platform[29:10 - 31:48] We can do better than "just the smartest will survive"[31:57 - 35:56] Incentives are about subtle things like a team that listens, not just pay and flexible time[35:59 - 39:35] A data therapist and becoming more aware of issues[39:43 - 41:32] Advice to engineers who write the data pipeline, engineer the SQL queries[42:06 - 45:24] Lightning Round[45:28 - 51:10] Takeaways[52:06 - 53:57] Three questions
The most effective way to understand your business is the special balance between things like tribal knowledge and extracted knowledge, technical teams and business teams, confidence and skepticism.
Join Tim, Juan, and Loris Marini, CEO of Discovering Data, as they zoom in to find that balance and the humility it may take.
Key Takeaways
[00:11 - 03:10] Introduction & Toasts[03:13 - 05:32] What's the weirdest place you've ever misplaced your keys?[05:44 - 08:01] The most effective way to follow the business is to follow the money[08:02 - 10:35] Thinking about business literacy and how to learn that perspective[10:37 - 12:35] How do we make change happen?[12:37 - 13:39] Having genuine conversations with people[13:44 - 18:19] Coaching, psychological safety, and communicating better at work[18:20 - 22:10] The definition of creating knowledge within an organization[22:11 - 25:34] Knowledge, insight, and levels of knowledge distributed in your team[25:35 - 28:52] You've got to spend time and you have to have a platform[29:10 - 31:48] We can do better than "just the smartest will survive"[31:57 - 35:56] Incentives are about subtle things like a team that listens, not just pay and flexible time[35:59 - 39:35] A data therapist and becoming more aware of issues[39:43 - 41:32] Advice to engineers who write the data pipeline, engineer the SQL queries[42:06 - 45:24] Lightning Round[45:28 - 51:10] Takeaways[52:06 - 53:57] Three questions
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