Change Anything Algorithm

hmraval — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:08:36 +0000

Just now I completed a very good Book: “Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success” and would like to summarize entire book through ChangeAnything Algorithm. This is an abstraction of entire book. I hope it will be useful to all. Please read this book. Wish you all the best and become happy Changers….!!!

The algorithm of Change Anything is…

To make any change in your behaviour engage all 6 sources of Influences…

Source:

Book: Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan & AL Switzler

Website: http://www.changeanything.com/exclusive

Dilemma of Data Analyst

hmraval — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:35:56 +0000

The Job of a Data Analyst is to get the data from various sources, pre-process the data and plot the data and give inferences to relevant stakeholders. The senior manager people may not agree to hear the bitter fact about the organization presented by an Analyst & may reject it. After the analysis is done, the problem is shifted from Analytic space to Communication space. This can be explained very well by the following anecdote.

“One day a well known fortune teller arrived at King Akbar’s palace. He saw King’s hand and told the following: ‘Your son will die in your presence.’ King got angry and punished him for spelling a doom for him. King also asked the fortune teller to leave immediately. Before leaving the city, fortune teller went to meet Birbal and explained the situation. Birbal asked him to revisit the palace with him and promised him that he will get proper reward. Next day fortune teller went to the palace with Birbal. He apologised for wrong prediction and corrected his statement ‘You will live longer than your son‘. King Akbar felt very happy that he has long span of life and give reward to the fortune teller.”

If you carefully analysed both the statements (in Bold), they essentially say the same thing, but first statement is direct and hurt the person but second statement is communicating the same thing while maintaining the decency and will not hurt the person directly.

So next time as an Data Analyst never say ‘Your son will die in your presence‘ instead say, ‘You will live longer than your son‘ while presenting an bitter fact to Senior Manager.

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Change Anything Algorithm

Dilemma of Data Analyst