9 Virtues for leading a company

 

This chapter covers

  • Practicing responsible machine learning with ethical principles
  • Ensuring the trust and safety of customers and taking social responsibility for decisions
  • Creating a productive and harmonious workplace, while focusing on enterprise value
  • Demonstrating executive presence and establishing an identity of industry leadership
  • Learning and adopting best practices across industries

The virtues of a successful DS executive can inspire how an industry uses data to produce business impact. So can the virtues of a distinguished data scientist. When you are raising the bar for privacy and ethical practices, you are building trust with your customers and crafting a corporate identity. When you are aligning partners and team members, you are building trust with your peers. When you are demonstrating executive presence, you are communicating a passion for making a positive difference for your company and your industry.

9.1 Ethical standards of conduct

9.1.1 Practicing responsible machine learning based on ethical principles

9.1.2 Ensuring the trust and safety of customers

9.1.3 Taking social responsibility for decisions

9.2 Rigor in leading, higher standards

9.2.1 Creating a productive and harmonious work environment

9.2.2 Accelerating the speed and increasing the quality of decisions

9.2.3 Focusing on increasing enterprise value

9.3 Attitude of positivity

9.3.1 Demonstrating executive presence

9.3.2 Establishing team identity of industry leadership