1808: Looking at Data and the Tools That Help You Look at Data with Rob Collie Founder and Owner of Power Pivotpro LLC

A Microsoft engineer alum, sought-after public speaker and author of the #1-selling Power BI book, Rob Collie and his team are relentlessly committed to "the new way forward," making P3 a leading consulting firm in the industry, pioneering an agile, results-first methodology that bucks the traditional BI company model. "'one of the first things you need to do in order to succeed at anything new is to get over the advice everyone gives you that it can't be done' I'm butchering it in terms of the letter of the quote but the spirit of the quote is exactly that… You have to believe in what you are doing. If you don't believe in it probably didn't even start. But if you are not a believer you properly don't want to be in this business, you properly don't want to be in the business of starting things. And you do have to even after you have sort of planted your foot and said okay, I am doing this then you have to whether all of the criticism that is going to be levelled at you because now you have put your hat in the ring, you have made your bet, you are now a target for criticism in a way that you are not when you are just considering doing something or talking about it… The criticisms don't end. The doubts don't end when you start. In fact, they really once you are in, once you start building this thing that's when you are really going to be tested. Your faith is really going to be tested… You are going to have to be okay with looking foolish sometimes"…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-88g