‘I looked at him and said…’: Accenture CEO Julie Sweet reveals things you should never do if you get offered a big job
Julie Sweet, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Global Professional Services Company Accenture, shared his journey to becoming a manager in an recent interview and stressed that people should never do if a ‘big’ job opportunity is offered in life.
In an interview with Fortune Magazine, Julie Sweet asked one day that Pierre Nanterne, CEO of its then boss, was looking for him and whether he was interested in running the company.
Sweet stressed that he never knew when his big breaks would hit the doors and did not allow this problem to doubt himself.
“At the end of the meeting, he closes his notebook and pushes him aside and comes out completely blue… ‘I think you can run here one day,’ Sweet said, talking about Nanterme and stressed how this is an important moment in his life.
CEO role proposal
Julie Sweet explained how this problem showed a surreal moment in her life because it serves as a general consultant with a legal history in Accenceure. Although a typical CEO did not fit into the pattern, leading men had a history and unlike their predecessors, he had not spent his entire career in the same company.
In an interview with Fortune Magazine, Sweet said that even Nanterne understood that a presentation from the general advisor to CEO was not possible. He suggested that he had to do something else before he managed the company.
You should never do
While Julie Sweet interacted with the Accenceure CEO at that moment, the former JPMorgan Chase CFO announced that Dina Dublon remembered what it was.
“When someone gives you the role of stretching… It is the possibility that the person who offers you a stretch role is more tense or more tense than you. So, don’t say anything?” According to the Fortune report, Sweet referred to Dublon.
Sweet, who channel Dublon’s advice, looked at Nanterne. Instead of doubting himself, he was confident and said he would want to listen to a greater opportunity offer.
“I looked at him and I said – with dya in my head – why yes, I would take care of it. What happened to your mind?” said sweet.
It was reported that this confidence has moved his career to the summit of the corporate staircase, and then in 2019 Julie Sweet was named CEO of Accenture.
Confidence force
According to the news portal report, Sweet suggested that people should be confident, as trusting the workplace is just beyond a major business opportunity.
Sweet, “We constantly challenge each other and our assumptions,” he explained. “When you create a team that embraces the change and thinks that there is a constant questioning, it means that you constantly question. You don’t need to stop and have a big strategy… Because you are always working on the strategy.”
And with the challenge to each other and assumptions, having the confidence in asking questions does not stop for sweet.
“If I want to be a business leader with legal experience, I quickly understood that I had to understand the job deeply,” he said.
