Innovation, Play and Failing

by Kim

I really enjoyed this interview with Mike as we talked about his award-winning presentation.

Mike and I discuss innovation and the different factors that affect it.

10 Reasons for Career Failure and What You Can Do About It

by Kim

Napoleon Hill is an interesting author and quite controversial but still good content to reflect upon.

In this episode, I want to reflect on:
Why people fail in their careers?
What hinders us from getting to the career goal set we have?
How can we avoid doing the same thing in our own life?

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Napoleon Hill is an interesting author and quite controversial but still good content to reflect upon.

In this episode, I want to reflect on:
Why people fail in their careers?
What hinders us from getting to the career goal set we have?
How can we avoid doing the same thing in our own life?

10 Reasons for Career Failure and What You Can Do About It

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

Napoleon Hill is an interesting author and quite controversial but still good content to reflect upon.

In this episode, I want to reflect on:
Why people fail in their careers?
What hinders us from getting to the career goal set we have?
How can we avoid doing the same thing in our own life?

4 Steps to Engage Successfully With Senior Stakeholders and Committees

by Kim

Do you currently run an initiative?
Do you want to get support or budget for an initiative?
Do you want to change the design or analyses of a study?
Do you need to run it past a committee or a senior person?

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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4 Steps to Engage Successfully With Senior Stakeholders and Committees

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Just Being Brilliant At Stats Doesn’t Bring You Far

by Kim

Today, I am talking about a topic that is very close to my heart. I want us, statisticians, to have an impact. I truly believe that if we make better decisions in our day-to-day jobs in our companies and organizations, then we can truly have a much bigger impact on the overall success of these organizations.

Being brilliant at stats is important, but it is not the only thing one must be good at. In this episode, I talk about my good and bad experiences and discuss what we can learn from them. I also discuss the following points

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Just Being Brilliant At Stats Doesn’t Bring You Far

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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My Personal Leadership Principles

by Kim

Why do you need personal leadership principles?
How can you refine and reflect them?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
Is it possible to be a leader even without a title?

I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle. I will be talking about these interesting points:

Why personal leadership principles are important?

Reflect on who you want to be
Remind you to hold yourself accountable
Help you focus on your learning
Be aware of the flip sides of these

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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Why do you need personal leadership principles?
How can you refine and reflect them?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
Is it possible to be a leader even without a title?

I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle. I will be talking about these interesting points:

Why personal leadership principles are important?

Reflect on who you want to be
Remind you to hold yourself accountable
Help you focus on your learning
Be aware of the flip sides of these

My Personal Leadership Principles

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

Why do you need personal leadership principles?
How can you refine and reflect them?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
Is it possible to be a leader even without a title?

I will talk about personal leadership today and this is not being a leader by position, but by principle. I will be talking about these interesting points:

Why personal leadership principles are important?

Reflect on who you want to be
Remind you to hold yourself accountable
Help you focus on your learning
Be aware of the flip sides of these

My Personal Lessons from using Various Data Visualizations

by Kim

To give you an update, I’ll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these – the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

These kinds of visualization helped me a lot to open new doors and made me amazingly easy to stand out from other statisticians.

In this episode, I am sharing the following points:

Visualization help you sell your work
- Easily understandable
- Easy to stand out
- Is fun to create

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

To give you an update, I’ll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these – the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

These kinds of visualization helped me a lot to open new doors and made me amazingly easy to stand out from other statisticians.

In this episode, I am sharing the following points:

Visualization help you sell your work
- Easily understandable
- Easy to stand out
- Is fun to create

My Personal Lessons from using Various Data Visualizations

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

To give you an update, I’ll be sharing with you what I have learned from the past year about visualization as I worked a lot of these – the exploratory and explanatory visualization.

These kinds of visualization helped me a lot to open new doors and made me amazingly easy to stand out from other statisticians.

In this episode, I am sharing the following points:

Visualization help you sell your work
- Easily understandable
- Easy to stand out
- Is fun to create

How to run Effective Meetings, even if you are just a participant

by Kim

What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician?

Study meeting
Project meetings
Team meetings

In this episode, I talk about the important questions that we need to answer and the points we need to consider to ensure an effective meeting.

Here are the steps you can follow and what can you do if these steps are not followed in a meeting you’re invited to:

What is the goal you want to achieve?
Do you need a meeting at all?
Who is really needed for the meeting?
- Who will contribute?
- Who could derail the outcome?
- Who would you need as an ally potentially?

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician?

Study meeting
Project meetings
Team meetings

In this episode, I talk about the important questions that we need to answer and the points we need to consider to ensure an effective meeting.

Here are the steps you can follow and what can you do if these steps are not followed in a meeting you’re invited to:

What is the goal you want to achieve?
Do you need a meeting at all?
Who is really needed for the meeting?
- Who will contribute?
- Who could derail the outcome?
- Who would you need as an ally potentially?

How to run Effective Meetings, even if you are just a participant

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

What are typical meetings you would be invited to as a statistician?

Study meeting
Project meetings
Team meetings

In this episode, I talk about the important questions that we need to answer and the points we need to consider to ensure an effective meeting.

Here are the steps you can follow and what can you do if these steps are not followed in a meeting you’re invited to:

What is the goal you want to achieve?
Do you need a meeting at all?
Who is really needed for the meeting?
- Who will contribute?
- Who could derail the outcome?
- Who would you need as an ally potentially?

Everything you need to know about matching adjusted indirect comparisons

by Kim

What can we do about indirect comparisons to make it better and more efficient rather than using the usual technique?
What are the indirect comparisons in terms of the efficacy of different drugs?
What experiences have you had when the type of one-to-one approach is better?

In today’s episode, Daniel and I talk about these questions and discuss more the following points:

Bucher vs MAIC – advantages and disadvantages
Methodik MAIC
NICE technical document (http://nicedsu.org.uk/technical-support-documents/population-adjusted-indirect-comparisons-maic-and-stc/) – including R code

Dr. Alexander Schacht

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In today’s episode, Daniel and I talk about these questions and discuss more the following points:

Bucher vs MAIC – advantages and disadvantages
Methodik MAIC
NICE technical document (http://nicedsu.org.uk/technical-support-documents/population-adjusted-indirect-comparisons-maic-and-stc/) – including R code

Everything you need to know about matching adjusted indirect comparisons

Dr. Alexander Schacht

All Episodes

In today’s episode, Daniel and I talk about these questions and discuss more the following points:

Bucher vs MAIC – advantages and disadvantages
Methodik MAIC
NICE technical document (http://nicedsu.org.uk/technical-support-documents/population-adjusted-indirect-comparisons-maic-and-stc/) – including R code

The Future of Safety Analyses: Interactivity, Visualizations and the FDA

by Kim

Over recent years, a lot of interesting things happened around safety analyses and visualization. They help us to better understand our safety data and detect safety signals. Wei and colleagues have recently published an article about these topics.

How to play the game of business to build stronger, more innovative, and more inspiring organizations

by Kim

We often talk about “competing in the marketplace” – where do you think, this term is coming from?