Managerial focus and balance

Managing and growing an advanced analytics and AI team is rewarding, challenging, and one of the most gratifying and frustrating endeavors I have ever been involved in. I would not trade my experiences and history in hiring and managing these brilliant minds for any other professional experience.

I have had the experience of being directed to manage groups of people who have been involved in executing highly routine work. I am not sure how people maintain interest in managing these groups and the work those team members execute. Also, I am unsure how people who do this work find it engaging and interesting past the first or second cycle of the repetitive process that is required of them, but we, as a society, are fortunate enough to have people among us who will do this work, but these are not the people you want on your analytics team nor would they want to be involved in, or qualified for, the highly variable, intensely challenging work of an advanced...