Client as Athlete

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Management

A client (I’ll call her “Mary”) recently described to me how she isn’t as smart as her senior managers. My take on smartness is that there are many different ways to be smart and that it is a one-dimensional, bullshit descriptor. The super-smart VP dominating the room who has had three divorces is probably not very smart, for example. The super-smart manager whose team is afraid to voice an idea or opinion is probably not very smart. Not feeling smart …