Biggest Challenges Faced by a Manager Business Intelligence and Analytics at Warner Bros Discovery
Gideon's biggest challenge as a Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics is balancing "individual contribution work" with higher-level responsibilities like project planning and team management; this constant "context switching" is difficult due to limited resources and the need to perform tasks more effectively than others on the team.
Project Management, Data Analysis, Leadership, Time Management, Problem-Solving
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Gideon Rosenthal
Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics
Warner Bros. Discover
Duke, 2013
UCLA Anderson
Computer Science
Arts, Entertainment & Media
Data and Analytics
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Video Highlights
1. Balancing individual contribution work with higher-level project planning and team management is a significant challenge.
2. Effective context switching between different tasks and responsibilities is crucial but difficult.
3. Resource constraints can necessitate hands-on work, even in a management role, demanding time management skills.
Transcript
So, why would you say your biggest challenge is being an analytics engineering manager?
This is probably unique to a lot of people in my role, and in many other positions as well. My biggest challenge at the moment is balancing individual contribution work with higher-level project planning.
There's a lot of higher-level thinking I need to be concerned with. I'm responsible for the people on my team, and I need to know they're working on XYZ and can deliver what we want them to.
But at the same time, because I don't have as many resources, or because I'm one of the people who can do certain tasks more effectively, I have to do a decent amount of the actual "individual contribution" work as well.
So, finding the time to carve out for both simultaneously is pretty difficult. Context switching depends on the person. I don't think anyone can do it that well, but it's particularly difficult in many industries these days. I think those are probably my biggest challenges at the moment.
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