John Block

Be the best at getting better.

You live the mantra.

You wake up every day saying, what can I do to get a bit better?

That's what we love.

When we find people like that, we say, let's go.

It's kind of that simple.

I think one of the things I learned at Bain, and I get asked this coming up from a consulting versus a banking channel.

I think in the consulting channel, you learn a lot how to ask questions, be active, be forced to...

drop into a business, and lead conversations early and think, do a lot of thinking.

And I'm forever grateful for that, the learning how to think element of consulting.

So I think there's a ton of value in spending a couple years early in your career doing just that.

So forever grateful for that.

By the way, sometimes it's deep thinking.

Sometimes it's not that deep.

It's just, you know, how does your business work?

You know, which is a little bit offensive in consulting.

Sometimes it's the truth that people, that reputation of like, it's not very deep.

It's kind of shallow.

But, you know, still, it's good.

My top-out answer is yes and because that's consistent with our strategy of doing a bit of both.