Prichard/Simons/Hauser/Minott/Garza
...I did not expect to be this elite

I was explaining this to my partner just the other evening and her response was gold. "Why does this feel like classic batman villains, just hitting the juice on Bane when they've got nothing else working"

That's a great read. Partly yes BQ goals, but also likely people just like round numbers.

Good luck tomorrow!

That's some seriously impressive marathon consistency. Do you usually race them with BQ and the jumpy cutoff times in mind?

Keeping it light and fun.

youtu.be/8bLinctYcno?...

There's a long list of guys that like to torch the Celtics out of nowhere. The guys that do it with regularity (Maxey, SGA, Mitchell) are terrifying. Really don't want Cade to make it on to that second list

In this vein, thanks to @cedricchin.bsky.social for the great writing about the Weekly Business Review. Has been really helpful to me when thinking about all the process pieces needed in addition to explainable metrics in order to make analytics stick.

I def don't fully understand this, at least in part thanks to my limited experience with those types of managers, and with org politics in general.

If the broader org is bought in to being analytics driven but there are managers blocking adoption, what's the path thru? Prove value where you can?

Awesome. Thanks for the replies. As a growing analytics person with an eye for org strategy, I've done a decent amount of reading by Cedric and others on the technical practitioner side, but I still struggle to put all the pieces together as it applies in my own work.

Ah ok. So effective data driven orgs in this context is more about decision makers (managers) gaining more natural visibility and fluency with the org details via metrics and supporting analytics.

Super interested in this point. Is this because a data or analytics team manager is the right organizational node to understand both the details underlying metrics and the levers that could affect them?