Yo, today's QOD is you are your own competitive advantage. Here we go

Welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your host Sean Crox and the

Sean Crox and calm we got Carla Harris back on the show she is the vice

chairman and managing director at Morgan Stanley and today she's gonna talk

about how being the most authentic version of you gives you the ultimate

competitive advantage here's Carla. It is sincerely an honor and a pleasure to be

here today and I thank Gloria Felt for giving me the opportunity to spend a few

minutes with you sharing with you what I like to call Carlos Pearls. My heart

earned in hard-learn pearls after being a woman on Wall Street for 26 and a

half years. Yeah that's amazing. I dare say that I have learned a few things about

not only surviving but more importantly thriving in the seat that you sit in

or the seat that you aspire to sit in and that's what the pearls are all

about. I had the privilege of writing a book in 2009 called Expect to Win and

since then I've had to privilege of speaking all over the world about the

pearls and over and over and over people ask me all the time why did you write

this book? Why are you so honest about everything that happened in your career

and I will tell you why when I walked out of the law and halls of Harvard

undergrad and Harvard Business School I embraced this whole concept of

meritocracy. Success was merely a function of how smart you were and how hard

you worked. Yet when I started my career didn't quite work out that way. You see

I thought I was pretty smart. Harvard undergrad, McNacool, Lolli, Harvard Business

School, pretty smart huh? I'm from the South so I knew there very few of those

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