How can I be a leader & keep up my technical skills at the same time?
While searching for the answer, I realized the TTGM framework. TTGM stands for Teach - Trust - Set Goals - Mentor. A mnemonic to remember it is Time To Gain Mastery.
Analytics to Decisions
How might organizations become more effective in converting analytics into management actions?
Confidence is a Choice
“Confidence is a choice, not a symptom. The batter has already hit two home runs. When he gets up to bat for the third time, his confidence is running high…
It’s easy to feel confident when we’re on a roll, when the cards are going our way, or we’re closing sales right and left. This symptomatic confidence, one built on a recent series of successes, isn’t particularly difficult to accomplish or useful.
Effective confidence comes from within, it’s not the result of external events. The confident salesperson is likely to close more sales. The confident violinist expresses more of the music. The confident leader points us to the places we want (and need) to go.
You succeed because you’ve chosen to be confident. It’s not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you’re able to become confident.”
What is Econometrics?
My background is in Econometrics. I get asked this question a lot. Sometimes it comes directly, sometimes in puzzled stares. Sometimes in glazed eyes where they’re regretting their first question for fear of a barrage of heavy statistical terminology. Let’s simplify it without the fear.
On the Visibility of Deep Thinkers
“We pay too much attention to the most confident voices - and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones. Certainty is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for thinking deeply.
It’s better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.”
Book Review: Becoming a Technical Leader, Ch 1
The Leadership Book Club, at R&D Mx, is sometimes hosted by motivated colleagues, sometimes by me. It is a great space to meet coworkers that I wouldn’t usually bump into. This time, we picked a book that takes us back to the basics (and, in doing so, invites many aspiring leaders) while promising to take us beyond the theory of most other leadership books: ‘Becoming a Technical Leader’ by Gerald M. Weinberg.
On Ordering Correlograms
Correlograms are the usual go-to visualization for a correlation coefficient matrix. If your features set (set of variables in dataset) has only a few features, the human mind is able to eyeball the correlation co-efficients to glean the most important relationships. However, when the list of features is longer, eyeballing is time consuming and there are chances that we will miss out on a few unobvious but important details. As a rule of thumb, when the feature set contains more than 5 features, I prefer studying a corellogram rather than its correlation matrix for insights.