Unlike many of my colleagues, I have never worked in management consulting or really spent much time developing a consulting skill set. Rather than starting my career at McKinsey, Deloitte or Accenture, I spent my early years working in advertising.
The Need to Prove Myself
It’s become somewhat popular lately to list self-awareness as a key driver of career success (as seen in this NY Times article titled Secret Ingredient for Success). I’ve always thought that self-examination was a little bit of a funny trick