Helmy Eltoukhi - Take Risks but Fail Fast.

[ucandomagic]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

 

[Bl4desutd]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

What a great post

 

[CarlMcBlade]

You can have a brain the size of a planet, but if you try to eliminate human fallibility from the game of football…You really are missing the point.

 

[Lane Ender]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

What about the football side that’s what it’s all about surely

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

You can have a brain the size of a planet, but if you try to eliminate human fallibility from the game of football…You really are missing the point.

Surely you are missing the point. Taking risks but failing fast is exactly recognising that you can never remove fallibility.

UTB & FTP!

 

[LONDON_BLADE]

Great post.
I think most of us are, or would be on board with this new world but for how it's come to pass. That is, following the somewhat harsh exit of one of our own. It's hard to stomach.
Imagine if this would have been on the back of releasing a lesser manager... we'd all be on board and excited for the future.

I just hope the data driven analytical models he's been successful with in medicine can be applied to football. If all goes well we could be Brighton on steroids.

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

I love this post GraphMan.

I hope you don’t mind, but I suggested on a thread about the value of AI and analytics that people should read your thread on what Helmy is doing with data and analysis to address a much more important problem than football.

UTB & FTP!

 

[bornablade]

'Show me a man that has never made a mistake and I'll show you a man that has never made anything'.

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

'really excited by the journey that we are about to begin' is one way of saying it,
'unsure at the moment and fear the strategy may be a little too risky' might be another.
And yet another way might be to say 'I'm shitting myself that this will be one of the biggest blunders in our history and we will have thrown away one of the best chances of establishing ourselves for many years to come'

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

Thanks, will have to ask Helmy about post broken toe care next time I meet him in the car park - or rather the first time and every time after.

 

[steve26272]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

great thing about people like this is they are comfortable with failure‘fail fast learn fast’

Musks starships have encountered, as they call it ‘rapid unscheduled disassemblies’ (explosions) . He will succeed tho

Our board won’t get it right every time, but I am confident they will get it right in time.

 

[Rodley]

Eltoukhi is the main man by all accounts.

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

Eltoukhi is the main man by all accounts.

Main man - our Rainman!

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

Just seen Kyle_Walker's_Son has liked one of my posts on this thread.

Get your Dad on board - we’re going to have a hell of a journey.

UTB & FTP!

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Just seen Kyle_Walker's_Son has liked one of my posts on this thread.

Get your Dad on board - we’re going to have a hell of a journey.

UTB & FTP!

That's nowt Eddie Colquhoun and John Denver are both back from the dead and on here - you never know who you will bump into!

 

[The Bohemian]

Some great points made and if we have someone on board who knows, or can quickly learn, how to weaponise AI effectively in a professional football environment we should all be interested.

Let’s hope Mr Elthouki really is a quick learner because so many owners who’ve done well in business just assume football is like any other business. It isn’t. To succeed requires business acumen and football nouse. Without the latter, owners quickly become victims of hubris or prey to vampire agents - as beautifully evidenced in S6.

As others have pointed out ‘our club’ is embarking on a high risk strategy. The AI recruitment piece being led by a professional poker player speaks volumes. Not necessarily a bad thing as Brentford and Brighton have shown - both owned by gamblers - but a gamble nonetheless.

if our new owners have the humility to accept they know very little about the Beautiful Game and seek guidance from people that do - including a top notch Director of Football - they have a chance. Otherwise, they, and by extension us as supporters, are in for a rocky ride.

Oh, and Mr Elthouki: please stop wearing blue and white striped shirts. Preferably ever but certainly on Sheffield United duty.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Surely you are missing the point. Taking risks but failing fast is exactly recognising that you can never remove fallibility.

UTB & FTP!

It was a statement in general. If we’re going down the Ai route for instance it doesn’t really make allowances for someone’s character. I always thought Wilder was a good judge of character.

 

[The Crab]

That's nowt Eddie Colquhoun and John Denver are both back from the dead and on here - you never know who you will bump into!

I was going to ask JohnDenver if he wanted to fly for Crab Airlines…

 

[Servigliano]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

I hope you're correct.
But you're not.
I foresee an epic fail.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

I was going to ask JohnDenver if he wanted to fly for Crab Airlines…

He takes them up, he takes them down - that gets him through the interview process.....

 

[robbiez666]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

Good post. The Americans love 'fail fast', just look at Trump who uses it all the time!

We aren't very good at using it in the UK. It comes up a lot in my job but it's funny how few leaders are prepared for the first part. Much better in the private sector than the public sector.

Oddly, one of the areas where it is used a lot and often well is football. Clubs sack managers quickly when they realise it's not going to work. This is why established Premier League clubs usually remain there. A few have bad runs every season but swap out their manager and recover. This is why having a DoF is so important. Because the manager/coach focuses on the matchdays and not recruitment. Managers/Coaches come and go and are largely interchangeable within an established system.

 

[Sorcerer33]

Seems to me that Steve Rosen is the “fixer” behind our owners and Helmy Eltoukhi is the mind behind our strategy going forward.

Eltoukhi is one of Time Magazine’s 50 most influential people in healthcare - on the planet. He has addressed the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

He has used complex data and analytical techniques to provide information for medical experts to use the wetware between their ears to diagnose and treat not just cancer, but the specific form of cancer, from a simple blood test. He doesn’t tell experts what to do, but provides them with invaluable evidence to enhance their performance.

But how is he at running a business? I trawled the interweb a bit for comments on the management culture of his company Guardant Health. I came across the words:- Driven, Focused, Ruthless and my favourite “Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

When you’re trying to innovate and make changes you have to try things, but see when they are not working and move on - don’t keep repeating mistakes ( sound familiar?)!

We have an owner with a brain the size of a planet and a great approach to business - a pragmatic visionary. Looking around at ownerships, I think we are extremely lucky, and I am really excited by the journey that we are about to begin.

UTB & Slava Ukraini!

Marvin the Paranoid Android had a brain the size of a planet and all he was good for was parking spaceships, opening doors and complaining about a pain in the diodes down his right side (Hitchhikers Giude to the Universe)

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

Marvin the Paranoid Android had a brain the size of a planet and all he was good for was parking spaceships, opening doors and complaining about a pain in the diodes down his right side (Hitchhikers Giude to the Universe)

But Marvin knew that 4 2 were important numbers!

UTB & FTP!

 

[NerdyBlade]

This isn't negative enough for me - you need to misspell some words and berate them

 

[Guesty]

Marvin the Paranoid Android had a brain the size of a planet and all he was good for was parking spaceships, opening doors and complaining about a pain in the diodes down his right side (Hitchhikers Giude to the Universe)

"I mean I've asked for them to be replaced..."

EDIT: Pretty sure it was his left side, now I think on.

 

[The Hobott]

“Take Risks but Fail Fast”.

Think Watford?

 

[ThirdGenBlade]

Wow GraphMan - you start a complimentary thread about an OWNER on a FAN’S FORUM and you get over 60 likes!

This is not normal - fans are not supposed to like owners - unless they sign Messi or put free bars under the Kop!

Mind you, the Deluded did fawn over Chancer at the beginning.

Anyway, I reckon Helmy the Toucan owes you a couple of beers, even though you did spell his name wrong!

Looking forward to the U21’s pre-season game at Club - maybe Helmy’s abacus will have found us a full team of Eastern European teenagers by then!

Won’t be too many years before the Pigs are playing Club every year, when they’re down there with them in the 9th Tier!!

UTB & FTP!

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Ridiculous post, these owners will take us back to league one (allegedly) it’ll be the ground next (apparently) and season tickets will end up a grand (according to certain CW loyalists). So I’d just sit and wait for these inevitability’s rather than believe in the yanks making forward thinking moves. Silleh. Get McCabe back.

 

[K1 flabby stick]

Marvin the Paranoid Android had a brain the size of a planet and all he was good for was parking spaceships, opening doors and complaining about a pain in the diodes down his right side (Hitchhikers Giude to the Universe) Galaxy)

Just had to put in a minor correction.
Cheers
Ford.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

I hope you're correct.
But you're not.
I foresee an epic fail.

I may not agree with this “fail fast” methodology being anything new or enlightening (it’s been a aspirational goal and standard phrase in my industry for at least a decade) but ucandomagic has outlined why he is excited by it.
Why is he not correct in your opinion and why can you foresee an epic fail?