How do you deal with data science gate-keepers?

How do you deal with staunch gate-keepers who:

- say things like "a data scientist isn't supposed to do this or know that" and avoid taking up work that comes their way and let backlogs pile-up, while building personal toy projects to

- who treat business and IT teams as puny peasants?

- think they need OpenAI for usecases without a proper business justification?

- use company compute resources to build personal toy projects?

- are awaiting that one special …

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