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Suzy Welch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
238 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

other end of that continuum is abstract thinking.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

Like I'm very, very high on abstract thinking and very low on spatial visualization.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And this student was off the charts on spatial visualization.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And he said, I love to go into stores and stare at packaging.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And on top of this, he had, his values showed that he had quite a low value of achievement, which is the value of having success that other people can see, really caring about winning and losing.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

He had low work centrism, meaning that he's a person who wanted a real nine to five kind of lifestyle.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And his top value was belovedness, which is about the value that we hold for a romantic partner.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And then his second value was family centrism.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And this was a kid who was walking into consulting.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

He was like, this is painful to see.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And he went away.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And when he came back about a week later to office hours, he said, Professor Welch, I'm blowing it all up.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

I'm going to go into business with my girlfriend.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

I've asked her to marry me.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And we're going to start a company making specialty drink product.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

It was really cool.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And he had already designed the packaging for it.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

And in fact, they launched.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

They're doing incredibly well.

McKinsey Talks Talent
How smart people end up in the wrong careers

They had a six pack of it.