Hot take: We talk a lot about using data to make decisions, yet we often overlook the costs of collecting and analyzing data. Humans are subject to many cognitive biases, so metrics can be helpful as a counterbalance.
And yet, many of the companies we admire had leaders that made decisions based on their belief in "the right thing," even if there was no data available to back up those decisions. Expertise, experience, judgment, and intuition are valuable, too. But they can be hard to quantify.
Jonathan Yu /
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2024-08-08 17:23:13
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