How does understanding the bigger picture helps you to be more productive and to be more influential at work?How can this help you sell your work to your supervisors?How can you fit your work with other’s priorities?How can you easily understand where others are coming from? Throughout the leadership program, this topic comes up again …
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Book review with Stuart McGuire If you enjoyed the last book review, you’ll surely enjoy this one as well. This is much more practical than the last one. Getting to Yes is a very fundamental book that everybody should read. It was fundamental for me early in my career as it helped me through many …
Interview with Mike Smith Why do we need to innovate?What are the drivers for innovation?How much time would you invest in something if it made an awful task more bearable? I really enjoyed this interview with Mike as we talked about his award-winning presentation. Mike and I discuss innovation and the different factors that affect …
Napoleon Hill is an interesting author and quite controversial but still good content to reflect upon. In this episode, I want to reflect on:Why people fail in their careers?What hinders us from getting to the career goal set we have?How can we avoid doing the same thing in our own life? Here are some major …
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Do you currently run an initiative? Do you want to get support or budget for an initiative?Do you want to change the design or analyses of a study?Do you need to run it past a committee or a senior person? In this episode, I talk about these 4 important advice if you want to engage …
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Today, I am talking about a topic that is very close to my heart. I want us, statisticians, to have an impact. I truly believe that if we make better decisions in our day-to-day jobs in our companies and organizations, then we can truly have a much bigger impact on the overall success of these …
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