Young gun November 8
Physical looks are so deceiving.
I found out the age of someone I work with (looks 45, actually 35) today and I almost fell over because she is a Director. Me, it’s the other way around – let me qualify that statement by emphasizing that it’s more often behaviour based.
In any case, we work together and she seems older but now I can see that she is playing the part. I have another friend who is the same age and when we get together it’s like having a coffee with Paul Martin, sans BS.
It started me thinking about young CEO’s running large organizations in the US. I checked Forbes site and I found the CEO of Gymboree is 33. Amazing. They are a multi-million dollar company. The next quote is brilliant though, (it’s only missing the “Dude,…”) “I love to riff and bounce ideas off of people. Regardless of what their function is, [Gymboree's employees] are all talented, bright people,” Matthew McCauley
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have C-level career goals but as a Sage once told me, “Act the part and you will be successful”.