The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.