Qlik Doesn’t Wait. Neither Does Your CFO.

Why Dashboards Explode at 9:59 and What Real Leaders Do Instead!

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Glenda Carnate
September 28, 2025

Read time: 2.5 minutes

It’s Friday, 9:58 AM. Your phone buzzes.
CFO: “We need the Qlik Sense dashboard for the 10 AM all-hands.”

You smile. Calm on the outside. Inside, chaos reigns.

Data loads fail. Tables disconnect. Measures vanish. Coffee spills as charts break and hope disappears. Dashboards scatter across screens while charts scream “#NULL!”.

This isn’t leadership. It’s babysitting broken queries.

You’re not alone. In 2025, 56% of data teams reported that poor data quality was their top headache (Source: Atlan, 2025). Most teams are patching fires and hoping Excel doesn’t laugh in their face.

Practical Survival Guide:

  • Save early and often.

  • Automate data loads.

  • Stop last-minute “hero” rescues.

  • Teach your team to debug.

  • Test before 9:59.

Key Takeaways:

  • If you’re the only one keeping the dashboard alive, you’re the bottleneck... not the hero.

  • True leadership comes from building systems and building people.

  • The real flex isn’t fixing charts at 9:59; it’s having the team ship without you at 9:30.

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