Who should get more credit, the person with the vision or the person with the ability to actually execute the vision? I feel like it should be at least equal, but lately I've been getting the short end of the stick on recognition and I'm a little miffed.

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Those with vision are many times more important than implementers. Those who have a vision AND can implement are infinitely more important. Do both.

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Credit for making a spreadsheet?

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Sounds to me like a Data Analyst does way more than build spreadsheets. So many Managers have no idea what their people can actually do or the talent that is required to make everyone look good. Show some appreciation for the work they do.

Anyone can build a spreadsheet, you can even ask AI to do it these days.

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1) Why would clients pay $500 an hour for skills that anyone can do?
2) Anyone that builds anything half decent (using any technology) knows that AI is currently more time consuming and erroneous than skilled human labour for anything remotely complex. If you're able to fully replace yourself with AI in its current state then you're only building simplistic things.
3) The fact you manage teams that builds excel models and you think anyone can do it suggests you either don't respect your team's work, or your team produces rubbish work. Which is it?

Ideally, it would be an equal partnership, and credit would go to both equally. But it all depends on the circumstances, and what the vision (or product or whatever) actually is. The visionary sets the goal and inspires the effort. But the executor has to overcome the obstacles along the way. Two different roles, and they both have to be filled by talented people.

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My old director was like this. He knew exactly what the client wanted to see and how they wanted to see it. Though he never took credit, it was very clearly his report.

His excel skills were ok and there's a dozen people that could create that spreadsheet but maybe 2 or 3 that could do it without his support.

The main thing is that by getting me to do those things, I now see those things as a standard in those reports. And you become one those 2 or 3 that can do those reports and the team is a lot stronger.

That's the payoff, it was my directors report but I walk away with experience I wouldn't have gotten. Then you do it on other project's and get the praise there.

Directors & generals would imply the former.

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