Tom DeLong
7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2017 by Tom DeLong · across every show →
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Jul 24, 2017 negative
DeLong: Returned to academia because Wall Street culture avoided substantive conversations
“When I was at Morgan Stanley, and I would have what I would call something other than deeply shallow conversations. We would have substantive conversations with folks, and then when they'd get back in the group, it was back to golf, and it was back to redecora…”
Jul 24, 2017 negative
Jul 24, 2017 negative
DeLong: High achievers are addicted to image management over essence
“So we want you to move from image managing to essence managing, and that's gonna be very tough, because you're addicted to the image part, and you're gonna be going, you've already started evaluating everybody and sizing people up.”
Jul 24, 2017
Jul 24, 2017
DeLong: Missing his university presidency goal leaves him feeling like a failure
“And at the very last thing I say in my self-doubting story is, and here I am at Harvard Business School, and I still feel like a failure, because my goal was to be a university president, and I'm not going to make it.”
Jul 24, 2017
DeLong: The Tension Between Achievement and Self-Worth Cannot Be Solved
“I think every day I'm gonna have to manage the dilemma of achieving and feeling good about myself. In my, in some ways, I almost feel like they are irresolvable, but it's the process of managing these tensions simultaneously. And that to me, that is a daily ex…”
Jul 24, 2017
DeLong: Created the First Performance Evaluation in Wall Street History
“I couldn't believe the way people were compensated. I couldn't believe the way people were promoted. It was literally an old boy system, and I went right after that, and helped create the first performance evaluation in the history of Wall Street.”