4.8 • 186 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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James Gorman, one of the most successful CEOs in the world of banking, is stepping down as CEO and shares unique insights into the world of banking, investing, and leadership. He also shares how he reviews talent, and the immense stress and pressure that come with a job like his.
The production team on this episode were PLAN-B's Nikolai Ovenberg and Niklas Figenschau Johansen. Background research was done by Sigurd Brekke with input from portfolio manager Frederik Thomasen and Philip Pearce.
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0:00.0 | James, you are one of the most influential people in global finance, and now you are stepping |
0:05.2 | down after 14 very successful years. |
0:08.5 | And it's an honor to be here with you. |
0:10.3 | And now that you're stepping down, you can tell us what you really, really think. |
0:13.0 | Well, let's see how we do. |
0:15.0 | Now, I'm starting with the beginning, you grew up in Melbourne, you were kind of the opposite of a lone, only child. |
0:30.6 | You grew up at the beginning with 11 siblings. What did that do to you? |
0:35.6 | Well, we had, I really grew up with nine. |
0:38.3 | Two died early as young children. |
0:41.3 | So my mother had 12 children, but I really had nine. |
0:45.3 | I think it teaches you everybody has some deficits and everybody has some special things to give. |
0:55.6 | And it's a very normalizing environment. |
1:00.0 | You can't be too egotistical or you get pushed down by your siblings. |
1:05.2 | You find that there are others who are very good at certain things that you're not good |
1:08.5 | at and vice versa. |
1:10.5 | It's just, it's a very humbling |
1:11.2 | environment, a very warm environment. Were you in the middle or which number? I was in the |
1:16.4 | exactly in the middle. I was number six of ten. It kind of helped your diplomatic skills, I guess. |
1:21.9 | Yeah, I think you're sort of the youngest of the first half of the family and I was the mini dad of |
1:27.3 | the second half. So you get to do a youngest of the first half of the family and I was the mini dad of the second |
1:27.7 | half. So you get to do a bit of leadership stuff. Now before you went into banking, you spent some time |
1:34.0 | at Columbia and McKinsey and so on. Some people say that in McKinsey they hire insecure |
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