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SG Mir's avatar

In some ways what you are asking is not really about analytics, but about how to have a fact-driven / truth-seeking culture. Ray Dalio would have a field day with you on this.

Best organizations (Google, Amazon) supposedly had this early on.

Science-focused universities used to have this.

The easy thought process is that this should come from the leadership. But I don't think this is enough.

I think to have a truth-seeking culture, you also need to be exclusionary and hire the type of Sales people, as an example, who prefer Truth over Fiction, regardless of how truth is born - even if that happens through the process of discovering errors.

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Ernest Prabhakar's avatar

As usual, Benn asks the hard questions most of us would prefer not to think about…

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