Snowblind
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Yeah, it's really not a big deal. I've personally had a team leader at work early in my time there tell me to my face that he didn't think my role was needed. He thought that way because he always had his team structured a certain way his whole career, and then the company made enterprise-wide changes and added new roles, one of which I was in. It didn't bother me at all...I just kept working and did my job as I was supposed to do it. It wasn't long before he saw the value in what I was doing and he was quick to let me know he was wrong. We got along great.
Similar thing probably happened here with Dorsey. He probably didn't think the analytics group added much value, because he had been doing things a certain way his whole life without them. And now that he's worked closely with them, he understands what they bring to the table.
People who are doing new things can't be too proud to have skeptics.
Pretty sure dorsey even talked about how they used analytics in KC. Didn't he say he wanted to be modeled after braves? Like 15% analytics and 85% traditional scouting? I think the quote is taken out of context a bit. Especially, since depo was also in on the hiring process.