Have you ever been stuck in moving something forward?
Do you wonder why others seem to be able to cut through the bureaucracy more easily?
Are you frustrated by the politics around you?

Olaf has a really interesting character. He is an IT guy and he went up through the ranks of different companies, had a great career and learned quite a lot about leadership. He was applying a lot of these learnings and now he's training others in that regard as he has his very own leadership program. I'm a participant and have benefited a lot.

One day, we agreed to discuss the 4 pillars of boosting your career. He helped me sharpen my thoughts and here's the result!

What is Statistical Engineering (SE)?

How did the idea of Statistical Engineering come about?

Is SE an idea and a practice, or is it a profession, or both? 

How does SE compare to the role/profession of “statistician” and/or “data scientist”?

Today, I have an interview with Margaret Gamalo, about how to combine a controlled arm with real world evidence data, a really hot topic.

Also, Margaret has been sharing her knowledge for a long time and has gained lots of opportunities this way. Helping others will help you in the long-run. We discuss this aspect in the episode as well.

Are you overwhelmed by work?
Do you feel like being constantly under time pressure?

As I’m talking with colleagues in nearly all organizations, there seems to be an overall increase in workload, shorter timelines, a reduced number of people to help, and also an increase in complexity of the projects. 

This leads to the breakdown of the system.

There’s some interesting research by a German mathematician, who wanted to understand why the German railway system sometimes completely breaks down and delays accumulate quickly over the day.

Do you want to help someone improve their visualization skills?
Or do you want to train others on any other statistics skills?

Training is a very important topic for us statisticians. We train people all the time it can be about statistics or non-statistics.

Is it possible to align business focus and self development at the same time?
How can we create clear department or company goals or relate these to our goals?

In this episode, Benjamin talk about how to make business focus and self development work together. We also provide you numerous tips on how to make it work.