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Can you explain a little about how your experience at McKinsey has allowed you to have a greater impact? Why did you go back to VP Engineering after having con
by 123ol12313 9y ago
Can you explain a little about how your experience at McKinsey has allowed you to have a greater impact? Why did you go back to VP Engineering after having consulting experience? At first though, I would think your technology experience would give you leverage on the business side rather than the other way around.
- konradb 9y agoI'd be very interested in this too, also at what age you did this.
- Joe8Bit 9y agoJoined age 30/31
- Joe8Bit 9y agoAmong many other things the experience gave me: * Empathy with the folks who's thinking was alien to me previously. I learned through doing their job. I could communicate with them and work in their context in a way that allows me much more leverage and ability to have impact with engineering. * I learned the semantics and pragmatics of running a large organisation which gave me the lexicon and confidence to be taken seriously doing it (therefore more leverage) and taught me lots of small but important tactical lessons (e.g. how to manage difficult shareholders) * How to communicate complex technical subjects to people who either don't/can't/won't understand them. * A HUGE network I went back because I missed it. I wanted to do consulting as a way of getting better at being an engineering leader, not leaving it forever. I was offered a few things at VC/PE firms, or in typical 'business' roles, but none of them really appealed. Not my passion.
- karambahh 9y agoThanks for your insights. I had never thought of the big 3 as possible route post-sale. Sale is not on the radar atm so back to my daily operational duties in my small yet thriving company :-)