“This was the ugly part of the stats-vs.-tradition debate in baseball: Rather than a conversation about the best way to make baseball decisions, it had become an argument, in which it increasingly felt as if the purpose was to score…
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Book Report: The Only Rule Is It Has To Work
Tagged with: analysis, analytics, availability heuristic, base rate fallacy, baseball, Ben Lindbergh, Bill James, clustering illusion, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Dan Deeth, Dunning-Kruger effect, focalism, Kurt Russell, sabermetrics, Sam Miller, Sonoma Stompers, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, The Tragically Hip, tradition
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science, Sports
Book Report: The HEAD Game
“The key message of this book is about how to manage tough decisions and piles of data by applying a few consistent guiding principles. The short version is simple: there is a better way to sort through life’s questions than…
Tagged with: adversarial cooperation, analysis, analytics, charity proposition, CIA, critical thinking, Daryl Morey, decision advantage, decision-making, Deep Thinking, expertise, John Wooden, metrics, Philip Mudd, Superforecasting, The Black Swan, The HEAD Game, The Undoing Project
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management
Using the Charity Proposition to Improve Analysis
“Listen to them, without reference to your own views, for elements of their analytic position that make sense to you. Is it possible that every single thing they say – those who oppose you – is wrong? Or are there…
Tagged with: analysis, analytics, assumption trap, charity proposition, decision-making, expertise trap, opinions, Philip Mudd, The HEAD Game
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
Book Report: The Numbers Game
“It is easy…to think of soccer as a game of superstars. They provide the glamour, the genius, the moments of inspiration. They sell the shirts and fill the seats. But they do not decide who wins games and who wins…
Tagged with: analytics, Andrew Friedman, Bill James, Bob Paisley, Boris Groysberg, Chris Anderson, conjunctive tasks, Daniel Kahneman, David Sally, Einstein, failure, Gabriele Marcotti, Gianluca Vialli, John Wooden, Kohler effect, Louis Van Gaal, Luca Toni, Malcolm Gladwell, Nathan Milstein, O-Ring Theory, Pep Guardiola, regression to the mean, Sepp Herberger, statistics, strongest-link, Tampa Bay Rays, team dynamics, The Extra 2%, The Numbers Game, Thomas Huxley, weakest-link, Zidane Clustering Theorem
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Management, Math and Science, Soccer, Sports
Lessons in data-driven public relations
Yesterday I attended a Communitech session within the PR & Communications P2P group; Dan Deeth, a friend and colleague of mine, shared his insight into data-driven public relations. And Dan knows a thing or two about the subject: he’s a regular…
Tagged with: analytics, Communitech, Dan Deeth, Global Internet Phenomena, Internet, media relations, public relations, reputations, Sandvine, thought leadership
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Book Report: The Big Short
“The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient…
Tagged with: analytics, economics, failure, hubris, lessons, Michael Lewis, mistakes, psychopathy
Posted in Books, Finance
Posted in Books, Finance
Big Data! Metrics! Analytics!…a cautionary tale from the world of baseball
“In the information age, things that are precisely measured are rewarded disproportionally relative to impact.” – Theo Epstein, President of the Chicago Cubs I work in telecommunications, and one of the major developments of recent years is “big data” (if…
Tagged with: analytics, baseball, big data, goals, metrics, Scorecasting
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Sports
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Sports
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