Career & Thought Leadership

Why Structured Data and Data Quality Matter More Than AI Hype

The Temptation of the AI Silver Bullet AI is having its moment. Everywhere you look, companies are rushing to implement large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and other cutting-edge techniques in hopes of solving their data problems. It’s easy to get swept up in the hype—after all, who wouldn’t want an intelligent system that magically fixes business data challenges? But there’s a fundamental issue that gets overlooked in this excitement: garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). If your …

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Group Decision-Making: The Good, The Bad, and How to Do It Right

Group decision-making is a double-edged sword. When managed well, it leads to better ideas, stronger buy-in, and fewer blind spots. When done poorly, it results in endless debates, analysis paralysis, and wasted time. As more people get involved, decision quality initially improves—until a tipping point where diminishing returns and inefficiencies kick in. So how do we strike the right balance? Let’s explore the good, the bad, and the practical solutions to improve decision-making in everyday …

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Why You Shouldn’t Query Raw Data—And When It Makes Sense

I was recently asked why it’s not advisable to query raw data directly. The question caught me off guard at first, but it made me think deeply. Raw data is often viewed as the foundation of analytics, yet querying it without proper processing can lead to inefficiencies, inconsistencies, and potential misinterpretations. In this post, I’ll attempt to explain why querying raw data should generally be avoided, when it’s necessary to do so, and best practices …

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Enterprise Complexity / Ambiguity

I came across this visual just recently, and it has quickly become my favorite visual to depict organizational complexity and ambiguity. If you are like many of us, who have had to deal with that, then you know the countless hours spent debating about things. Everyone has their interpretation, and everyone has their opinions. Then one fine day someone says enough, and decides to dig deeper to really find out what the truth is. They …

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Thinking and Doing

Steve Jobs on the intersection of thinking and doing: “My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and we examine, you know, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he …

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How did Will Power win 2022 IndyCar Championship

If you are like me who was still left with questions yesterday on how Will Power eventually ended up winning the 2022 IndyCar Championship, then I have some answers for you. Why is that even a question, you might ask, after all Will Power did drive superbly over the season. He did indeed, but with only 1 win out of 17 races, it rather looks quite odd, and especially that the most number of race …

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Every Little Bit Matters

Many a times we believe there is a secret special sauce to being a leader, and to motivate people. Reality is that, there is no single sauce. In fact, there are many tiny droplets of flavor into play, and that many of those we already know/do. Take for example, a simple gesture of saying good morning to your team every single day, either in-person or on your company’s instant messaging tool. That simple gesture goes …

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