Data Driven Leadership with Alex Chausovsky

Alex Chausovsky is an economist, accomplished speaker, senior business advisor and Director ITR Economics. He's a highly experienced market researcher and analyst who's consulted and advised companies throughout U.S., UK, Europe, Brazil, China, featured on NPR, The BBC and the Wall Street Journal. In this episode you can learn: You get noticed doing the work others don’t want to How to use data to predict the future in unpredictable times Leadership data of local teams and people is so important You have to open yourself up to failure in order to succeed down the road Join our Tribe at https://leadership-hacker.com Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA Transcript: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services Find out more about Alex below: Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchausovsky/ ITR Economics Website: https://www.itreconomics.com/alex-chausovsky Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/achausovsky   Full Transcript Below ----more---- Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you. Our special guest on today's show is Alex Chausovsky. He's an accomplish speaker and director and senior business advisor at ITR Economics. He's a highly experienced market researcher, analyst, and economist with every decade of expertise and subject matters such as macroeconomics, manufacturing, automation, and advanced technology to name just a few. But of course, before we get a chance with Alex, it's The Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News Steve Rush: In the news today, I explore leaders from yesteryear. We are incredibly blessed on The Leadership Hacker Podcast, having great guests, share stories, hacks, and tips and ideas every week. And they're currently applying their leadership behaviors, coaching, and development activities. But many of us have learned from other people that have inspired generations. And today I'm just going to choose just two who have left their legacy on this world.   The first needs no introduction. Martin Luther King Jr. a celebrated civil rights activists, forever changed America and the world. Famously quoting, “I have a dream that four of my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Very few Americans are as celebrated as Martin Luther King Jr. The Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States until his tragic death in 1968. As an African American born in the rural South in 1929, he faced upheld battle with his life. Growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, the young Martin was considered a precocious student who paid little attention to his studies and found great discomfort in religion. It all began to change though, in his junior year when he took a Bible class, which renewed his faith. By 1948, he'd earned a degree from Morehouse College before moving to Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. It was at Morehouse College that Martin Luther King opened his eyes to the racial inequality and took the action. Following years of successful with civil rights activism, he and 61 of the activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. Two years later, he visited Mahatma Gandhi again birthplace in India,