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Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Darden Business Publishing
Version: 20 May 2021
Revision date: 12-Jul-2021
Length: 10 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
Whoosh, is that all there is? On the eve of becoming partner at a well-known consulting firm - the stuff MBA dreams are made of - this senior executive starts to question what he is doing with his life. Walt Shill had graduated eight years earlier from Darden Business School and worked his way up through McKinsey Consulting to be the first American partner in the Japanese office. Happily married with children, the family moves back to the United States and Shill starts to question his goals. For the first time, it seemed, Shill had no target. The idea of having reached his aspirations sets Shill out on an adventure to seek his own meaning to his life. He physically works himself into good enough shape to take a cross-country bicycle ride - which he completes. This undisguised case is Shill''s story of how he got to that point, what he learned along the way, and ends with a promise to himself to be less judgmental and start walking through life with open eyes.
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Abstract
Whoosh, is that all there is? On the eve of becoming partner at a well-known consulting firm - the stuff MBA dreams are made of - this senior executive starts to question what he is doing with his life. Walt Shill had graduated eight years earlier from Darden Business School and worked his way up through McKinsey Consulting to be the first American partner in the Japanese office. Happily married with children, the family moves back to the United States and Shill starts to question his goals. For the first time, it seemed, Shill had no target. The idea of having reached his aspirations sets Shill out on an adventure to seek his own meaning to his life. He physically works himself into good enough shape to take a cross-country bicycle ride - which he completes. This undisguised case is Shill''s story of how he got to that point, what he learned along the way, and ends with a promise to himself to be less judgmental and start walking through life with open eyes.
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