Stuart Frankel, Narrative Science CEO, shares the leadership lessons he learned over the last 11 years since he founded the company.

Some of Stuart's insights:

• Prepare to play the long game
  
  
• Embrace the ups and downs
  
  
• Don't treat problems equally
  
  
• Differentiate existential from non-existential decisions
  
  
• Empower the team to move the business forward
  
  
• Executives should prioritize their team of peers over the team that reports to them
  
  
• Keep asking for that context until you find it
  
  
• Have a healthy skepticism in data analysis to eliminate data biases
  
  
• Conflict is sometimes necessary to get the team on the same page
  
  
• Get clarity about the final decision made before leaving the room
  
  
• Identify the wrong assumptions that lead to a bad decision.
  
  

Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. In its artificial intelligence, power technology automatically turns data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge.

Prior to Narrative Science, Stuart was the president of the performance division of DoubleClick and was a member of DoubleClick’s senior management team, where the company was sold to Google. He started his career as a lawyer and a CPA.

Learn about Narrative Science at https://narrativescience.com/

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