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Where do you stand as an analytics leader?
20 questions. 6 dimensions. Get a personalized profile of your analytics leadership — mapped to the pitfalls and principles from The Auction Block.
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6 free cards to get you started
Each card names a specific pitfall, gives you the principle, a real-world example, and three action steps you can take Monday morning.
📖 Chapter 1 Preview
The Dashboard That Broke Everything
Read the opening chapter of The Auction Block — free.
Sarah Chen stared at the email for the third time, willing the words to rearrange themselves into something that made sense. They didn’t. The subject line read: “Dashboard Audit Results — URGENT” and beneath it, a number that made her stomach drop.
Forty-seven.
Forty-seven active dashboards across the analytics organization she’d inherited three weeks ago. She’d expected a mess — the job description had practically screamed “fixer needed” — but forty-seven dashboards for a company with eight product lines was a special kind of chaos.
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The Manufacturing Mindset
From Part 2 of The Auction Block — the leadership essays.
I was standing on a factory catwalk in Minneapolis, watching a production line that had been running for decades, when it hit me: everything I was trying to fix in analytics had already been solved — just in a different building.
The factory floor below me was a masterpiece of systems thinking. Raw materials entered on one end. Finished products came out the other. Every step was visible, measurable, and improvable. Bottlenecks had names. Waste had categories. And the people doing the work could actually see the whole system, not just their piece of it.
Then I walked back to my office and looked at our analytics org. Same company. Same building, even. But a completely different universe. Work entered from every direction — Slack messages, emails, hallway conversations, executive texts. Nobody could see the full queue. Nobody knew what was actually in progress versus stuck. And the “finished products” — our dashboards, analyses, and models — often disappeared into the void with no feedback on whether they actually helped anyone make a better decision.
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