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Agree with the prescription but not entirely sure with the last solution regarding "praise and promotion" given by executive team for data person.

A much effective alternative, I suppose, will be to encourage data person go to the market with their unique "insights" that being rejected by the team, and prove there's value for it in the market.

Both executive and the one who found the insight follow what's customer value. By punishing "company" who just sit in their golden egg, we could force the company to listen more, hence act more because of it.

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Yeah, I certainly don't think that we should punish people for looking for "insights," or not celebrate those things. They can be really valuable. But I think we should give the same rewards (be it social, financial, whatever) for people who do the more mundane seeming work of just reporting on what's happening.

Like, right now, to be on a data team, there's nothing good or fun about the reporting work. It feels like drudgery, and is treated like drudgery. My argument is that we should just treat it better.

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