Patrick Lencioni
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1,711 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 13 Apr
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So that was my first job.
If you know who Meg Whitman is, she was the partner at Bain and on my case team, and I was the junior member there, she was a partner.
When I left, she said, Pat, you would be a really good partner here someday, but this job being an associate consultant is not for you.
And she was exactly right.
Because I loved like the whole like trying to figure out what was really going on with the client and figuring out like what should we be focused on?
But then the execution and the details were just misery for me.
And, you know, my dad gave me the best career advice, even though he had no experience with it.
He taught me how to interview.
He just said, make sure when you interview that they know you really want the job.
And even though I took the wrong second job when I left Bain, he said, it's gonna put you in a position to work at a company where you're gonna learn about everything else going on there.
And maybe you'll be able to do something different.
So I went to this little company called Oracle.
I had never heard of it.
I think they had two or 3000 employees at the time.
And they offered me a job and I turned it down.
And the guys that were interviewing me said, hey, Larry Ellison is going to call you tomorrow night.
And I said, I don't know who Larry Ellison is, but he shouldn't because I'm not going to take this job.
Well, they talked me into it and Larry Ellison didn't call me, but I eventually took the job because they kind of told me it was something other than it was.
So I go there and for six months, it's misery.
But while I'm there...
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