Carlos Accioly 🚢
@caccioly
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Helping managers use data to reach business goals | Working with data and software since the 20th century
Rio de Janeiro
Joined April 2009
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My dad died. I was sitting on a plastic chair at the ICU, outside the cubicle where he lay, waiting for the death certificate. That night I felt that I was the saddest person in the world. Then a lady walked up to me.
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Moby-Dick's anti-hero, Captain Ahab, is NOT a role model. His fixation on the white whale consumes him, literally and figuratively. His ship's crew pay the price for his obsession. But he sometimes shows good examples of how to focus to get results.
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Hoje é #InternationalSurfingDay... e a Praia de Ipanema está com mar ruim. 😒
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A manager asked my help to pick a metric to show that she had been doing a good job. Not to find out if what she was doing was working or if she should try something else.
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It's hard to deliver results if you use metrics like most managers do. Most managers use metrics as a scorecard. "Should we worry or should we celebrate?" That's a waste of the true potential of performance measurement.
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Do managers need to watch KPIs move up and down helplessly? How can they move KPI towards their goals? By finding metrics they can influence more directly.
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Don't waste water. They're not making it any more. #WaterDay2023
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In God we trust. Everybody else bring data.
Data avoids arguments. It's why I love this quote from W. Edwards Deming: "Without data you're just another person with an opinion." Or as Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO, said: "If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine."
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“Tell me how you’ll measure me and I’ll tell you how I’ll behave.” Eliyahu Goldratt kept coming back to his favorite saying. What he meant is that incentives drive the world.
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Ever try to change someone's mind with actual evidence and they just won't budge?
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Quick exercise: describe in 1 to 3 minutes what an ideal person would be like. Now ask yourself why you aren’t more like the person you described. I did this exercise. It’s humbling but will make me a better person (hopefully).
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