7 Virtues for leading a function

This chapter covers

  • Establishing project formalizations across your function
  • Coaching as a social leader and organizing initiatives for team career growth
  • Driving successful annual planning processes, while avoiding planning anti-patterns
  • Securing commitments from partners and teams
  • Recognizing diversity, practicing inclusion, and nurturing belonging within your function

As a director or principal data scientist, your virtues can shape the function’s virtues. Your emphasis becomes the function’s focus. Where you scrutinize, the function tends to develop competency. With the knowledge that your words, actions, and habits shape the culture of the DS function, what are some specific tools and practices that can ...

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