The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership The Seven Deadly Sins of Data: Or: the dashboard queried the live database while the customer waited, the crown jewels s, (Paperback)

<p><b>Most data estates are not lost in a single disaster. They are neglected into failure, one reasonable shortcut at a time.</b></p><p>Someone runs the report against the live system. Someone keeps a copy in a spreadsheet because the real system is too slow. Someone holds personal data in a place no policy covers and no inventory lists. Someone grants access for a project that ended years ago and never takes it back. None of it looks like a crisis. Then a number turns out to be wrong, or a service goes down on the busiest day, or a letter arrives from the regulator, and the organisation discovers that the confident assurance that its data was under control was only ever a hope.</p><p><i>The Seven Deadly Sins of Data</i> is a field guide to that neglect, and to ending it. It argues that data estates fail in seven recognisable ways, patterns old enough to deserve names. Pride trusts the model only one person understands. Envy chases a fashionable new platform. Greed runs the reports on the system that serves the customer. Gluttony keeps everything and can find nothing. Sloth defers the housekeeping that decides everything. Wrath meets the breach with panic and concealment. Lust trades control for the convenience of the open drive. Each is seductive precisely because, in the moment, it feels like good judgement.</p><p>The numbers are not kind. Industry studies put the cost of poor data quality at around 12.9 million dollars a year for the average organisation, and the cost of a single data breach at close to 4.88 million dollars, before the fines and the lost custom that follow. The causes are remarkably consistent, and, this book argues, remarkably preventable.</p><p><b>WHAT'S INSIDE</b></p><p>Beneath the sins sit four foundations every data estate stands or falls on: knowing what you hold and where it came from, knowing who owns it, knowing what it costs and how it performs, and knowing who is allowed to see it. Above them, each sin is anatomised the same way: the tension it distorts, a simple matrix for locating where you actually stand, the anatomy of how it fails and how it succeeds, the virtue that answers it and the way that virtue overshoots into a fresh mistake, the phrases that signal it in the room, and a playbook for the people accountable.</p><p>It is built to be used. Real cases, among them JPMorgan's London Whale, TSB, Equifax, Capital One, the NHS National Programme for IT, Maersk, Marriott and Blackbaud, show each sin in the wreckage and, occasionally, in the recovery. More than twenty industry chapters carry the seven into banking, healthcare, telecoms, retail, government, charities, manufacturing and more. A governance architecture sets out who owns what and how to run it. Eleven appendices and a plain-language glossary turn the argument into tools, ending with a single question a board can ask of its most important data, and a way to tell a real answer from a comforting one.</p><p><b>WHO IT'S FOR</b></p><p>For the board member who must oversee it. For the executive who is accountable when it fails. For the data owner who can already feel the estate drifting. For anyone who has been told the data is under control and quietly wondered how they would know. This book hands you the language, and the questions, before the post-mortem rather than after it.</p><p><i>Old sins. New medium. The same seven mistakes, in the data this time.</i></p>

• The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership The Seven Deadly Sins of Data: Or: the dashboard queried the live database while the customer waited, the crown jewels s, (Paperback)
• Author: Srini Kasturi
• ISBN: 9798199701723
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-06-02
• Page Count: 244