The Data Hero Playbook: Developing Your Data Leadership Superpowers [Hardcover]

For thirty years, best practices in data have delivered bigger platforms, thicker slide decks, and disappointing outcomes. The problem isnt technology. Its mindset.

The Data Hero Playbook?reveals how limiting beliefslearned helplessness, all-or-nothing thinking, externalized blamehave kept data from becoming truly transformational. The cure is a growth mindset, put into action through practical steps any data professional can take.

Youll discover how to:

• Put customers at the center of every decision.
• Apply product management principles to data work.
• Quantify value in revenue, cost savings, and risk reduction.
• Run data as if it were a P&L.
• Deliver fast wins with a Data Strategy MVP in weeks, not months.

Unflinching about what hasnt worked yet unapologetically hopeful about whats next, this book is a call to arms for data leaders ready to escape the status quo.

If you want to stop explaining why data should matter and start proving it with measurable results, The Data Hero Playbook?is your guide. Become the data hero your company actually needs.

Introduction xv

Chapter 1: The Data Hero Origin Story 1

Chapter 2: The Data Hero Superpower: A Positive Mindset 17

Whats a Mindset? 17

Mindset and Corporate Culture 21

Traits of a Positive Mindset and Acts of Data Heroism 24

Adaptability and Willingness to Change 25

Resiliency 27

Innovation and Risk-Taking, Reduced Fear of Failure 30

Open to Feedback and Criticism 34

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