Successful leaders use this very simple emotional check to avoid rushed decisions, tense meetings, and burnout, especially during the last week of the year.
Although these skills are rarely discussed, they often determine who progresses and who remains unchanged.
This is an uncomfortable phase that seems like a loss, but it’s not.
One formula. Seven assumptions. No witnesses.
One chart. Twelve tweaks. Zero time left on the calendar.
The metric everyone trusts... incorrectly.
Adoption is easy. Profit is harder.
The models are powerful. The inputs are not. And somehow... this keeps being ignored.
Adoption is exploding. Costs are compounding. Somewhere between the two lies the real investment risk.
Great model performance doesn’t guarantee a business decision.
The gap between exploration and execution is where most dashboards lose trust.
Power BI didn’t create the disconnect. It revealed it.
