Wouldn’t life be easy if it were black and white? Organisations are looking for the answers to their people questions and it seems as if the most financially successful have hit the jackpot by using data. But is it really that simple? There needs to be relevance and curiosity. The key is to ask the right question – and that means having not only enough knowledge to do so but also the courage to confront the insights gained from a combination of data and gut feeling. Where to start? Read on …
In her latest book, The People Formula: 12 steps to productive, profitable, performing business, Purple Cubed founder Jane Sunley advocates “keeping it simple.” She says “Start simply and easily – decide what the question is, consider your gut feeling and then identify data which can either support or contradict that instinct. Use data to test your hypothesis, not set it.” In summary, regardless of how far technology advances, it appears that we will always need someone, a real person, attempting to understand what is the reality and what is not based on their own judgment. Data cannot provide judgment, nor emotion, it can simply provide evidence. And so a business leader must make use of both the insight and their instinct in order to win out in the boardroom.
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