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Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green-Carl. Today I'm talking

with Kate's Maid, director at McKinsey's Digital Practice. She's advised many companies

on leading digital transformation, particularly in the retail sector.

Kate, thank you so much for talking with us today.

My pleasure.

So there's so many companies today dealing with digital disruption.

Some might even say digital destruction, it can sometimes

feel that way on the inside. And that obviously has put a lot of pressure on companies to

change their strategies and their operations, but it can also put pressure on us, I think, as individuals to improve

our digital IQ, you know, our DQ, as McKinsey has called it, and also to create a more digital

organizational culture.

And so I thought I'd like to start off today

with a couple of questions about that sort of personal aspect of it.

And I thought we could just start with the so-called Aquahire. You've written in the past about how some companies

have bought several smaller digital companies as a way to sort of bring in talent to the organization

and this is something that's always coming up when you're looking at Silicon Valley companies as well.

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