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"The great leader speaks little. He never speaks carelessly. He works without self-interest and leaves no trace. When all is finished, the people say, “We did it ourselves.”

-Chinese philosopher, Lao-tzu

Quote on Manager Failure Rate

"We've found that 40 percent of executives hired at the senior level are pushed out, fail or quit within 18 months. It’s expensive in terms of lost revenue. It’s expensive in terms of the individual’s hiring. It’s damaging to morale."

-Kevin Kelly, CEO of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, discussing the firm's internal study of 20,000 searches.

Bio

Ike Ellis is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Friend of Redgate. He's first earned his MVP in 2011 and has been renewed every year since then.

He specializes in Power BI, DAX, T-SQL, Python, R, Machine Learning SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS Tabular. He has a strong interest in Microsoft Azure Data products, including CosmosDB, Azure Data Lake Analytics, and Azure SQL DW. Mostly, he likes helping organizations wrangle their data, prepare it, make it fast and accurate, and visualize it in a way that makes a deep impact on business users and decision makers.

He's spoken at PASS Summit (2014, 2015, 2017), Redgate SQL in the City (2012, 2013,Save 2015, 2018), SQL Bits (2018), and TechEd Europe (2012). He wrote the data portion of Developing Azure Solutions in 2015. The second edition was released in 2018.