Almost every leadership team has a recurring meeting, whether it’s called an executive committee, a leadership sync or a business review. In this post, we’ll go through the most popular formats for running it, what each one does well, and where they differ, to help you challenge the way your company runs its exec meetings today.
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Whether you are planning to hire a short-term freelancer or your first full-time hire to build out data infrastructure for your company, you need to make sure your Organization is ready for Data. Leaders usually ask about company size (“Are we big enough yet?”) or technical maturity (“Are we sophisticated enough yet?”). These two factors give you a first approximation, but they’re too basic to get a hiring budget approved.
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Every shared-service function goes through a similar awkward adolescence. Data, IT, marketing ops, … you name it. At some point a small team is asked to do two things at once: build the foundations the whole company will eventually rely on, and deliver the tasks stakeholders are assigning them right now. Those two things compete for the same hours, and the tension between them doesn’t resolve on its own. It has to be managed.
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