Reine Escalona

Interview with Victoria Gamerman

What’s in it for statisticians and data scientists?

Design thinking is an interesting topic and is becoming more popular these days. I found out about it on LinkedIn and it’s where I met Victoria.

In this episode, Victoria and I talk about the following points:

What do you do if you need something from someone at work, but

• You have never talked to this person ever before
• This person doesn’t know you
• The person is very protective about the thing you need
• You have only 15 minutes to convince her

Very tricky situation!

In this episode, I will show you through this example how you can get what you need and have the other person feel good about it.

Interview with Stephen Bungay

Stephen is a really interesting person. He is the author of The Art of Action and has a background in consulting and history. Based on this knowledge, he wrote a couple of books about history and leadership.

In terms of leadership, there’s an area that overlooked usually from the business. However, business can learn a lot from this area. I’m talking about the military space as armies were the biggest organizations needing strong leadership for thousands of years.

In this episode, you will take a lot of learnings for your everyday life. Specifically, we also discuss the following:

How does understanding the bigger picture helps you to be more productive and to be more influential at work?
How can this help you sell your work to your supervisors?
How can you fit your work with other’s priorities?
How can you easily understand where others are coming from?

Throughout the leadership program, this topic comes up again and again.

In today’s episode, I am sharing about my experience I had earlier in my career when I was working on a lot of different publications with different physicians responsible for these studies.

Book review with Stuart McGuire

If you enjoyed the last book review, you’ll surely enjoy this one as well. This is much more practical than the last one.

Getting to Yes is a very fundamental book that everybody should read. It was fundamental for me early in my career as it helped me through many negotiations throughout my career.

You will see from our discussion the AHA moments Stuart had by reading this book and the important points I’ve learned. Here are a few, we dive in more deeply:

Interview with Mike Smith

Why do we need to innovate?
What are the drivers for innovation?
How much time would you invest in something if it made an awful task more bearable?

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. We specifally mention the following points: