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Achieve Clarity in Decision Making - Stuart Frankel, CEO, Narrative Science
21 minutes Posted Dec 11, 2020 at 8:00 am.
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Stuart Frankel, Narrative Science CEO, shares the leadership lessons he learned over the last 11 years since he founded the company. 

Some of Stuart's insights:

  • Prepare to play the long game

  • Embrace the ups and downs

  • Don't treat problems equally

  • Differentiate existential from non-existential decisions

  • Empower the team to move the business forward

  • Executives should prioritize their team of peers over the team that reports to them

  • Keep asking for that context until you find it

  • Have a healthy skepticism in data analysis to eliminate data biases

  • Conflict is sometimes necessary to get the team on the same page

  • Get clarity about the final decision made before leaving the room

  • Identify the wrong assumptions that lead to a bad decision.


Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. In its artificial intelligence, power technology automatically turns data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge.

Prior to Narrative Science, Stuart was the president of the performance division of DoubleClick and was a member of DoubleClick’s senior management team, where the company was sold to Google. He started his career as a lawyer and a CPA.

Learn about Narrative Science at https://narrativescience.com/

Learn about Stuart Frankel at   / stuart-frankel-aa63b6