Interview

For my interview I talked to Carlos Rascon, Director Data Science & Analytics, at educations leadership analytics. In our conversation we talked about different leadership strategies and best practices that have helped him succeed along the way. For him having his MBA has certainly helped him, but the leadership skills required to be successful didn't all come out of a text. For example, his experience in the Marine Corps and working at the pentagon has helped him develop the confidence needed to lead a group of people. This also helped him learn that having the ability to work across all sectors is important. This is especially true since there is an increase trend among cross sector relations.  Also, learning the ins and outs of business by stepping outside of his comfort zone and taking risk has helped him develop more professionally. Sometimes all the training in the world won’t make a difference if you are unwilling to take the risk and just get started.